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Show HONOR TO AN ENEMY. When Count de Viilebois-Mareuil, in Paris, was officially informed of the death on a South African battlefield of his distinguished brother, who had died there fighting for the Boers, he set about the preliminary steps to have the body brought back to France for Interment. A legal formality. Pi.i,.wiji.Mm EUR- '-S:',lJ ;! :. H' vf.ii JJ- 1 AN ENGLISH MONUMENT TO AN ENEMY. however, required an examination of the dead man's will. The instrument was opened before the court, and the first line of the document was as follows: fol-lows: "I desire to be buried where I may die." In the face of this specific declaration declara-tion no option was left , to the relatives, rela-tives, and . the , gallant soldier to whose Valor the opposing British troops paid military honors will be left to rest on the African plains where he fell. The British paid the brilliant French soldier a marked token of respect. General Methuen erecting a neat monument mon-ument over the grave where he lies buried, near Boshof. I |