| Show OURSE MEN WHO WO CAUSED THE TE WAR YOU Boer Soldiers on t thu 1 OL OF rii lU WAR WARI I Those VaIl II 1110 Word or of 1 it Terrible r J 4 Dispatches l A April ot of oftie u tie P Ild tb the col name Q that durin during tb the lal last lw few da days have coat by man mall from wa war cm core describing the triumphal en entry tr try Into Bl tb splendid of Roberts tb the successes that thata a month ao ago were wre marking the pt progress of BritIsh ar arms there thre I is to be fount II in inthe tb the Tim Times bue buried away In looting column a surpassingly human Inc md I It is II ony only a short hort account of the burial ria of one soldier nm name It not given but In strength of pathos in ID delicacy of description nothIng liner hu baa been dons done by the peat t army of tl JOW now In South Africa Dated March Date I I 15 It Is II u as follows follow 01 One lal small lem item wu was Iet out ot of th the ground rund plan of it No S I general hospital Fr Far down on the rM right where the rund ground slopes loP to the wooded lolow hollow t there stands nand a little al alt b by I it itself li self lu In a group roup or of stunted pines I It I Is only a dot all as the eye I leaves av th the bl big maru marques but greater than all o of them h by what It holds bold Through the drawn curtain 11 no b bed or furniture I is to 10 b be seen en por r anything save ve two narrow wooden boa hoses lying Ide by br side Ide On One of them themis themI I is Jut loin goIng to la burl Roman Cath their cemetery being two mi miles no not be here of off tb the priest mi meets hi him there FALEN BRITISh BRITtin Th There have bave ba a gun Cr car carriage to take him but Ime some rn oe one h has blundered and tb the transport lu has sent Dt an ordinary boode hooded wagon from Which a tiring par party of six Ix milItiamen II in khaki tumble out and form fonn into Inlo line Pour tar orderlies lift the litte little box only a by the union Jackon their shoulders and marh march up the slope We stand tand uncovered the two hospital officers at the Ibe salute the militiamen Ir try hard to pt get the f arl arms together but one rustic bu boy Lf eyes are re blinking bt ha to twist bl his rl iid four tm time round before h he cn can stop I It but butt Te The oln coffIn slides UM under Oe the hood hood the II six soldiers for form up change step tep and marb march before and behind the wagon waon which a pir pair of thin worn wom out ho horse strain through the sand nd And nd so 0 tb the lite little cortege moves move oJ off Insignificant wih with I it IDun unsung her hero who to some lome Olf one Ime some somewhere where the In aU all was a perhaps on one m man I the he world worldOn worldOn On the dark b body of the wagon one olle wor word is painted In staring tarlo white block leUr letters Vicora Victoria t the rat great WhIte for whom they al all tight ad and many die and WIn like this ON N THE BOIt ream FroDl 0 the other side Id through lit the cor ot of the Daily Nw News who was a captured and rell released there there com comes the capur tal tale ot of a Hoer lad that tells lell how Bor Bore floor as e 11 well as British herta hearts are breaking hw how I lie burle buried on the veldt without even ven of the little Wen wooden box The Th captured correspond at wu was talking wih with a group of Dl Doers In their own cp camp What do ou Oti fl feb low Iowa think of Australian al a lIghters he Inquired le lie proceeds I asked the question carelessly but the answer that I rt got brought me to tom tomy m my bearing quickly For then Ihen I IW learned that thaI more than Iban one ane gallant Australian dear to 10 me had tl fallen n never tf to rise again mince I have been lakel taken prisoner Til The man who spoke poke wu was little more than a lad a pale faced faed In son of the veldt veldt le He ha had tangled curly hair ad and bi big l Pathetic blue eyes H soft U as a girls and limbs that hacked the rugged strength of the old DOr Boor stock bt but there wits 1 the nameless something that able ex expression ulon In hi face which war warranted ranted him a brave man carl carlon carried on one ar arm In a and the Il bandage round II his Jck neck hid a bulet bullet wound The Th Australians can lh fight h he said Ald simply They hy wounded me and tb they kl killed my father it II wu was the wind sighing through th the hospital t trees that aad made tie the RoI Boor ld lads VII voice grow row strangely husky hUlky possibly Ite the same me mec c cans fUe the blue eye eyes with tear tearA tears tearsA A YOUNG SOLDERS COUI It II was In a lair fair nh lIght Ia lid I ad said gently I It was the fortune of 01 wa War re los he answered It was a In a lr fair fIght en an awl awful hope Il Ill never lo look upon another like I it Dmn Dean the lIghting h he broke out oat fiercely Damn the Ibe lighting I 1 did not hate bal your Australians lot not wat want t to ki kill say n of them MY father ba had hO I ill wIll 1 to them nor they to hi him yet b bI he heis I is out thee there bet between we two great the Wind blo blow cold nd lied dreary at U UThe Urns The lad shuddered I it lk cashes a m man doubt the lo love of the Cr Christ And nw now who ho 11 will go bk back and tl tell mother ad Ille little Tac 1 that lat I he a is de dud that 1 hr will come t to theta n no m more uk t cn damn pain painI the war a t the lad called a In Iii In lila I dont God k known which side Id is Ie rt right or wr wrong but I do kw know that te OUI curse at U the Ort Christ will te w o rest t on the ha bead of t these who bare this war fo for o alb sake f o or orthe tb the greed of gold and Ike good 0 God wi wIll Ire not let It the 11 widow al and the h J orlu orphan chIld go 0 una ven bo blood wil will yet t for th the blood and It must mut rt rest either Ither on an the blo bel o Of ue and Steyn or Chamberlain U Rh FIGHT WAI JAnn We ba bad 1 A lt lot of the Bit kit lIb ish I think they ther lall called them Te They old could neither ad advance vance nor rU retire W We had them In like sheep bep ad sad our field pAe cornet Van was wa bl beseeching them to trw throw down clown their rt rifles to save being slaughtered ter for they hd bad D no chance JUI Just then we e uw saw abut about a hundred coming boundIng ove over the rok rocks In the gully behind u us There were two Iwo great at bl big men In rrt front cheering them on Th They rushed over everything fr firing a ii they eme came not wildly but ut as mn men who knew the ua use of a rifle with tle the quick sharp upward Jerk to tl the Shoulder the rapid sight and then tb the shot rey hey knoke knocked ovel ovet a lot hot of our mn men but w we had a splendid position r h had to 10 expose themselves to pt get t to us UI anti we hot them a as they canto gt t U us Tey They Wf were tubing to the of th the n Jih fish I It was splendid but It wu wee 11 ma mane II ne AUSTRALIANS LIKIO WILD mN On the they came sad lAd W wi lay behind the boulders ad and our rUI snapped and snapped nappe again at pistol range but w we dM did not stop thOe those pt WI wild tM men Until th they charged right Into a fLU IHU ln basin which was fringed around aU all Its L t edges b brkl by rocks with bibes Our men menla la lay th titer as thick A as Ite and nd the Australians were wrt fairly t trapped l 1 yer Were tit tat worse o oft tn than the he ort up high In that r ravine Our fIeld cornet gave VI te the ore order to Cee cease Irn tiring sad aud called 0 ott them t to throw down their riffle or di lIla Then one of the bl big at greet rup rough looking mu mat with a volO vole Ik hike a bull rO roared d out Forward surrender To Those w were tt the It wor words te he ever eEr Iter uttered for a I man on my right put a bullet dealt cleall between hi his eyes eN and he fell forward dead We fund found Iler later i that hi his name wu was Mo Major ot of the VictorIa rife rifles II lie WU was sa brave brae ea as a alon alion lon lion but a Mauser auar bullet stops toJ the bravet bravest 1 His men duld dialed at the rk rocks like was aWful to l see them They smashed at our heads with cub clubbed rifles or thrust their rifles up against us through the rok rocks and II lined rd One after another their leden I ders fl fell |
