Show IRISH FLAG OVER BRITISH TERRI TORY london jan 8 M superintendent of the transvaal who came to ireland as a delegate of the transvaal irish at the usg centenary has written an interesting letter to an irish physician in london a well known nationalist in it he gays an irish brigade left pretoria and johannesburg on october 7 just two days before the ultimatum so as to be ready to step across tho frontier in caso the did not give up swamp ins us with troops everywhere we arrived at camp in time to cross the border into english territory the boys chose an american named blako ai colonel that waa a spectacle that many in ireland would like to see 1800 hardy resolute yien with the beat weapons that money could procure their bandoleers bandoliers bando liers bursting with mauser cartridges and though sporting none of the millinery and uniform business all in the serviceable style and wearing a bunch of green ribbon if boj going soldiers who cannot shoot a hais mck sold the general 1 I let you wear 1 mark like that john macbride atto Is now major carried a flag a real irish flag into tho country and 1 can tell you he was proud to flo go Jou berUs orders were that the arih brigade was to mil lut wo stay there tor the english ell bach BO fast that we had to put our best foot to keep up them at atoe first engagement wb had with the we took a couple of hundred of ahem and been comie jagt ake old frieada by the thousands every other day afterward it WAS a lot of durban uell beis we bagged first and you bet as we brought them into our camp the boys gave them a pretty talking to and gave lots of them our manifesto and asked them it it find its way to their hearts most of ahem looked awfully ashamed of themselves but there vere some who looked as black as night and a d d sight blacker when they saw our green flag waving above thousands of riflemen as they were led to prison in four battles now the irish brigade has had the proud duty of guarding the cannons and well they have dene it no english band has touched a cannon guarded by the green flag men after the fight at ladysmith Lady smith where the brigade made a bigger basli than ever for themselves joubert ad them as follows irish brigadiers said the general your action and service this day will never be by the boers and though you were strangers among us yon aro now part of ourselves your bravery in the field still more than your oath of republican allegiance makes you true burghers of the republic you can imagine how the boys cheered a speech like that |