The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-23


shs very rnarrIe of TIE hidden Boer guns
Tasn carna 4 voIgsy that brought them -
ths-lr senses.
yy-Essle m retrezfEzg Beers had led Jane
sons mn on. the Beer commander had
sent another fierce q men around 20 close
about their rear. Then the column was
surrounded on 1hree sides Taers E2s lgst
enc say clear. That was 4 narrow pass
through the hiiss. and on either side OF 4
were Boer rlasrnea. VINO could pick OF ev-
cry nan IN tHe column Jameson vas
caught ike a Eat - a trap
N0w. Ehiie the Beer force largely OFT
Numbered JamesoH's column, for X had
been REINFORCED by thousand or more
men. the Beers who took part n the actual
fighting numbered jast sixty. They were
this rsnsmen behind the boglders.
Jameson realized that he was caught as
soon as ne tried 20 lead his force through
ths cat in the hills, but he had grit. II not
discretion. and Ne turned his batteries en-
the boalders. The field gurs and the Max
inns kept Up q frightful fasilade. The ccl-
urnE tried 10 storm fhs hills. but each time
they charged tnsy were driven back. snd
zach tine they fell back they left dead
ana wounded GA the ground. But again
and again they rode al the irtreuched
Beers. The field pieces ard Aaxilns kept
up their rattle Tor nearly an hour. Then
they erased The last round Of ammuni-
ton for them had been spent Not enc
Boer had they injured.
Who il Was in JaTneson's column that
par uD The white flag does rot appear. II
was nof Jameson. Tire Beers recognized
u instantly. Not a shot was flred BY
them after IL was shown Men from the
column went forward. stepping over the
bodies Of their dead. a Boer leader ap-
pear~d 20 meet them. The jameson men
asked the terms Of surrender. The Boer
said a. al
within five minutes
Three minutes were wasted IN argu-
Inent Then the terms were accepted. and
the jameson column laid down its arms
and It's members were made prisoners OF
war They were famished, and the Beers
fed them Their wounded were picked up
from the battlefield by the Beers and were
carried 20 the hospitals in krugersdorf
where they received the best medical az
tention that the town afforded. The men
said they had not dared dismount from
their horses for two days. for fear they
would not be able to mount again. they
were 50 stin and sore from their long ride
and weak from loss OF sleep and want OF
food
When they arrived in Kr1Igersdorf many
Of them fell from their horses through
sheer exhaustion. DIR. Jameson himself
went. and denounced the cowardsce OF the
bttiaaders Of Johannesburg for betraying
him.
But 10 return 20 Johannesburg. The ex-
cifsmsnf there following the printing Of
the details or the fight was without bounds
The condemnation OF the reform commit
tee became stronger and stronger The
papers Of the city even denounced the
committee.
liz was with the greatest difficulty that
the uitlanders were prevented from march
ing forth TO fight any Boer force that
might DO found. II was well they were
prevented, for the moment President kru-
ger had done for jameson he gathered all
the troops he could command. and he had
1900 within a days march OF Johannes
burg had they been needed
When the Cape Times went 10 press the
government was just about 10 order the
arrest of the reform committee. They
had already found the letter inviting jaime
son TO come on, and signed b. Charles
Leonard. Francis Rhodes Lionel Phillps
John Hays Hammond and George Farrar
The Cape Times calls Jameson's raid a
revolution BY proxy. II says editorially
among other things:
There Is a saying that one cannot make
a revolution with rose water. Johannes
burg IS 10 he congratulated on an even
more luxurious tour de force. 1t has made a
revolution by proxy. / am not one of those
tame moralists. said one of the most elo-
qgent Of Irish rebels in a famous perora-
ticn. VINO hold that liberty Is not worth
the spiiliug Of one drop of blood. The rev.
oiuuonists Of the Rand agree with 1lea-
CHER. They have found that their emanci-
patton from political serviuile was quite
Well worth the cost of blood-other peo-
pies. For weeks past We have been edi-
fed by columns of eloquence upon the
wrongs. intoierahle to manhood. under
which they smarted. Their ultimatum 10
the government was declared to represent
a charter Of freedom for which i0.e0 men
We're ready. If forced. To take up arms
With the irony Of coincilenc it is that "a
Times article Is teIegrBphed declaring that
while Mr.. Ieonard's manifesto asked for
little more than the programme adopted by
the National Union. last year. there was
this important difference. that those who
indorse the manifesto OF 1895 viii take the
responsibility OF enforcing tt In reality.
81 appears the extent OF the stern resolve
OF the citizen army of 1900 was to invite
"A handful Of other men TO enforce it for
them"
The Times throughout supports jane
son. and says all the people Of Cape Town
supported him.
Two Instances OF the fight. not told above
and worth relating. are these: Jacohz. a
Boer. saw a wounded man was dying and
apparently suffering great pain. Actuatei
by a kindly desire 10 relieve him If posi-
hle. he dismounted and was about 10 give
him water when recumbeut man shot
him dead with a revolver. a Boer then
despatched the man who fired the shot.
The other incident was the meeting OF
two young Africanders. one with the
Beers. the other with jameson. who had
been school chums. They had ICveled al
each other when recognition took place.
and they mutually lowered their rifles At
the same moment Jameson's man was hit
~ another harEhsr. when his friend in
stantIy dropped his rife. ran 10 his assist
ance. and found him not mortaIly hurt.
Finding that he had no money. he gave
him a sovereign. hugeed him and rejoined
/ his party.
UNCLE PAUL kRUGER