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Show 4-444444-4 4 4 44444 4 4 j l the Irish' Brigade l 1,800 Sons of Erin Helping to "Win the Xndepeml- t X ence of South Africa's Republics. ' 444444 44 444-4 44444 4444444444 4 4 4444 4444-4 (Special Cable Dispatch to the New York Daily World.) London, Jan. 16. The first authentic intelligence reaching England concerning con-cerning the Irish Transvaal Brigade cornea in a letter to an Irish physician, ia London from Patrick Gillimgham, the Transvaal Irish delegate to the 'H3 I Centenary celebration in Dublin and now Commissariat Superintendent of the Boer army. Superintendent Gillingham describes the delight of the Irish Brigade on crossing the border into Britisth territory. He says: "We are 1,800 hardy, resolute men, armed with the best weapons money ' could procure, our bandoliers bursting with Mauser cartridges- and thaiw sporting none of millinery uniform busines-s, all are dressed in the same-serv-iceable style, with just a bunch cf green ribbon to mark the color of the true. "Major John McBride carried a real Irish flag into the enemy's country. When General Joubert ordered us to occupy Majuba the boys- were in great humor. Then they mounted Majuba with a ringing cheer, and1 word was passed for 'One More Cheer for Another Fontenoyl' "Sure enough, we had a small Fontenoy very soon, for im the first engagement en-gagement we had with the English we took a couple of hundred prisoners, ' and they have been coming in just like old friends every other day since. "It was a lot of Dublin Fusileers we bagged first, and as we brought thern, to ourj camp the boys gave them a prefjy talking to. Most of them looked awfully aw-fully ashamed of themselves, but some looked as black as night when" they saw our green flag waving above the thousands of riflemen as they were led to prison. "Seme of the officers were very nice, too. One, as fine-looking a man as- you would like to'see, could not keep the tears from spurting from his eye:-i at be- T ing caught like that. He was every inch a gentleman, and we did our beat to make him comfortable. "Plenty of the Dubliners were glad to be on our side safe, and we have good hopes of most of them. But even the most desperate could not do anything any-thing else than surrender; our firing w;as too deadly. The fun of the thing id that our men were trained to shooting by the mining companies when Cecil f Rhodes and Joey Chamberlain were organizing the Jameson raid." Speaking of the Green Flag. Superintandent Gillingham says: "The Boers are quite fond and proud of our Harp. 'There goes the Iris'h Harp!' they cry, 'give the English plenty of music!' And we do. They dunce finely to the tune we give them." I f t , ; ' I |