Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-19
GRENADIER GUARDS AT RAM.
LEH.
Fifteen Hundred BayOnets
Flashing in the Sun-The
Duke of COnnaught's
Command.
London Times.

yesterday afternoon a battalion of
the Scots Guards and other of the
Grenadiers moved out to Ramleh. At
1 o'clock in the afternoon the soldiers,
In the highest spirits at the prospect
OF escaping from the confinement and
heat Of the crowded decks, we're
drawn up along the quay in full march
ing equipment. The men wore scarlet
TUNES, the Scots white helmets, the
Grenadiers light brown. Their water
bottles were filed, their ammunition
pouches and haversacks we'll stored.
The dressing of the line was perfect.
as Sir John Adye, Sir Archibald Ali
SON., the Duke of Connaught and
others passed slowly down. The Duke
looked brown and healthy, and is
growing a beard. He wears long
buff riding boots, and has adopted a
leather scabbard, which looks neat
and serviceable, and cannot blunt his
sword. Sir john Adye assembled the
officers around him and uttered a few
inspiring Words in the course Of which
however, he reminded them that their
enemy was determined and we'll
armed. Then the band struck up;
1900 hayonets flashed in the sun; the
long column march into the town. At
the head rode the Prince. The route
lay through ruined streets. Here and
there a turbaned head peeped from a
window. At the corners we're gathered
scowling Arabs and women shrouded
in wraps to their eyes. Half way
down the Rue des Seurs, the scene of
the massacre, a bold orag jutted up,
crowded with stately palm trees. In
the pleasant shade Q group of Arabs
men, women and children-stOod or
reclined, their graceful attitudes
brought out clearly by the bright
blue sky in the background. They
were much startled aud impressed BY
the six big chested pipers, who struck
up together a wild Gaelic melody as
they strobe by before the Scots
Guards. The Arab boy ran by the
side OF the pipers, grave, long robed
natives drew closer together, and
certain exoitable sailors on leave exc.
cuted a hornpipe in the midst of the
crowds. As the troops went
through the great square, now
marked out in piles Of charred
stone, the Europeans in the
crowd expressed their admiration of
the bearing and physique Of the men.
What devilsl' exclaimed a atout
Italian, in a tone of rapture, to a
friend. All was managed we'll at the
railway station, except that places had
been SO nicely calculated for the Scots
that your correspondent had to ride
on the top Of the guards brake. The
train steamed slowly through an Arab
village outside the town, in which
women shook their fists after us and
boys shouted maledictions through
the stone outwork put up by the
French at the battle Of Alex.
andria, on through groves Of
beautiful date palms that swept
the carriage roofs, and drew up finally
beyond Ramleh. The force here dis.
embarked and moved into tents by the
side Of the Forty sixth regiment, the
Grenadiers arriving later In the even
ing. The Coldstreams are to come to.
day.
This morning at s o'clock | saw the
cooks busily preparing breakfast for
their comrades. Long trenches of
stones were formed in the sand 10 the
direction OF the wind, and rows Of
steaming kettles were singing cheer
fully. Hard by, naked warriors swan
and disported themselves In the foam
ing waves OF the Mediterranean, whose
deep blue oxpanse touched the hori-
zon. Some Eve miles inland, pillows
OF smoke showed that Arabis cooks
we're also at work, and with a glass il
was easy to count his numerous tents
and to watch the w%hitecoated men
husily digging trenches, 00lIa.g.I