The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1894-07-26
HEROIC LOYALTY.
English Soldiers who Sang &c God Save the
Queen" In the Face OF Death.

English Soldiers who Sang "God Save the
Queen" In the Face OF Death.
The Pail Mall Budget lately had the
following account of how Mai Wilson
and his party met their fate In their
attempt to capture Lobengula: On
Maj. Wilson and his party returning
with Capt. Borrow's rcenforcements TO
the kings scherm in the morning they
were received by volley from part of
the lnguba and lmbisu regiment, who
had orders 10 take up their position on
the road by which Maj. Wilson and his
party would return. On receiving the
vollcy Maj. Wilson retired into the
bush toward the river, but he found
his party surrounded on all sides by
natives, numbering from twenty-five
hundred To three thousand at the very
least. The orders from the lndunas TO
their men were that ON reaching
Maj. Wilson's party they were TO shoot
the horses first. This order the
Matabele proceeded to carry into
effect, Maj Wilson's party keeping up
heavy fire all the time. The horses,
which Maj. Wilson had tied together
80 - iihBt NtIt NOt'i Ill tnOt.
Englishmen then lay down behind
them and kept mp steady fire with
such good effect that they succeeded
In driving of the Mntabele for n short
time, but, requirements arriving
from across the river, the attack waa
again renewed. The fight must have
lasted some three hours A number of
soldiers were seen to be woun ded, and
their ammunition began to run short.
Then the natives gradually crept up
closer, shooting anyone they could.
The lnduna describes Mai. Wilson
most accurately by his dress and the
hat he wore, and states that he was
wounded in several places and Gov
cred with blood, while another wound.
ed man stood by his side loading rifles
and handing them 10 him. Mai. vii.
son and his men fought desperately 10
the very last. The Induna said that
ms the supreme moment came the Eng
lishmen who were still able to rise
stood shoulder To shoulder, took OFT
their hats, aud joined in song, the
kind Of song that he 1.-THE Ind,ma)
had heard missionaries sing To the ma
tives. The Matabcle then rushed mp,
aud while the men were singing what
we suppose To have been God Save the
Queen" they were overwhelmed by
the natives and assegaied The Indu.
ma estimated that the Matabele lost
eight To every one OF the thirty-four
white men killed, and said that Loben-
gula's warriors lay round the dead
white men like grass. -s--, 800
NUMEROUS valuable coins belonging
TO tho Macedonian period have been
dug up near Athens
PACKS of wolves have appeared at
Belgrade and other towns IN Servia. Al
Pozarewatz girl was dcvoured by the
famished brutes, and stories OF similar
tragedies have como from various parts
Of Europe.
A rooR French peasant woman whose
husband was seriously wounded by a
German forester on the Alshtian from
tier has refused 10 accept the indemnity
OF 2,50O francs offered her by the Ger
man government,
ONE OF tho largest forests In the
world stands ON ice IL Is situated be
tween Ural and tho Okhotsk sea. A
we'll was recently dug In this region,
when II was found that at n depth Of
$40 feet the ground was still frozsn