Show IN THE TWO ARMIES there are few of the amenities of civilized warfare practiced by the forces now in conflict in south africa if we arc to rely on cable information abich comes from there baden pow el in his report of the battle at Game tree in which the british were cut down by the boers with terrible accuracy says his dead and wounded were robbed of money rings and other valuables when the attention of the bacr field cornet was called to the rilling of the dead he expressed regret that despite his instructions to respect the dead the younger boers were un ru y and beyond his control and he accused the british soldiers of stripping general kock and leaving him ns ked aad wounded on the field thus causing death the words quoted are from colonel baden powells dispatch and disclose the feeling of hatred and distrust that exists among hie boers for the british general kock was in command of the Pi etoria force of men defeated in the battle of near lady smith at tho opening of the war it was during this engagement that the filth lancers did their pig sticking the boers were defeated and gen kock was wounded and taken by the british accompanied by his I 1 kock to gen kocl died a prisoner but young kock managed to get back to pretoria where ho made an affidavit before a magistral alia gen kock had been stripped ut all his clothing by the british soldiers robbed of everything and left naked on the battlefield and that when taken to ladysmith Lady smith in a frightfully wounded the mistreatment he el together with the exposure to which he was subjected on the field of battle caused his death how thoroughly this affidavit aid story have been circulated Is well illustrated lust rated by the reply of the boer cornet to col baden powell at the db fiut post of whether the affidavit is fact or noti is not for us to but that the boers firmly believe that their dead and wounded have been given barbarous treatment is clearly made evident and that they ie i e retaliating in kind is also demonstrated st col baden powell also refers to the exhibition of dumdum dum dum bullets by the boers in reply to his charge that explosive bullets were used against him the dumdum dum dum Is a special make ot bullet which the british army used in the soudan and india fanatical wild tribesmen who fight on as lent as there is life left they are intended to spread on striking a body and tear the flesh to pieces etther killing or completely disabling the enemy these missiles are condemned in civil aed warfare and therefore are nol supposed to be used in south africa where oppose in fact where two civilized forces face each other they are not thought to be as serviceable in placing the enemy hers de combat as the regular mauser cr lee mattord tor the contending aigles in their humane consideration of their wounded must employ a great cr number of their men to look after the than it nearly every man j h t were to be killed or ciu to pieces the significance of the ct of the dumdum dum dum bullets as an answer to baden powell that explosive bullets were used may ba understood it Is only another evidence of tho distrust with which abo doers are filled when dundee fc 11 and the boers took the city they found many cases of dumdum dum dum bullets among the british munitions of war left behind by general yule although the british authorities claimed the bullets had been condemned and were not to bo used against the boers no amour t of explaining could convince the forces under joubert that the british were biot firing these missiles and immediately the whole boer army was alive the stories of the use of dumdum dum dum bullets it shefre misunderstandings continue belore long neither side will ask or give quarters and all the modern humane regulations of warfare wilt be cast aside even the rod cross will be and dirven from the ba |