Show j 4 THIRSTY MEN AT THE FRONT FRONTOn e r rr rs e r s I IOno Er On Ono ot of the vicissitudes of DC campaigning In South may lie be realised from the scene CE nt In the accompanying picture which a few hundred Ita park parked ed d and thirsty Tommy trying to let get a mouthful ot of water ater at a stream tream alon along the line ot of march Into Ladysmith The wy In which three th travel men menar ar are struggling to It get a cooling draft from the tram stream shows plainly enough lOW how lOWthe they the must suffer from thirst under the South African nun IUn But when It 18 borne In mind that the stream trum to which thy they are crowding so 10 eagerly I le a brackish mu muddy dy lukewarm scarcely fit for tI use one must conclude that they Uler art are Indeed a thirsty lot of t men But Dut when Tommy Tomm Atkins I Is thirsty he heco co doss not top stop to 10 count the polliwogs In his hi drinking water |