The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-22
BRITISH FOUGHT BRAvELY.
Stories of Their Splendid Patriotism
at Tugela River.

London, Dec. 21-The splendid pa
| triotism Of the volunteers continues to
/ be evidenced on all sides. The news
papers note with satisfaction the effect
that this display of British spirit and
evidence of the resources the empire
/ is able to command is having on con-
tinental critics. The Westminster Ga
zette, however. sounds a note of alarm.
IL thinks the moment is peculiarly I'M
propitious to send abroad the home de-
| tenders, since no one is quite easy as
to the effect the proceedings in South
Africa Will have on Great Britain S
European neighbors.
Belated stories from Chieveley camp
Natal, ali concur in saying the British
did marvelS in an impossible situa-
ton. The oldest war correspondents
say they never saw anything compare
bic with the bravery Of the men and
officers The naval contingent created
an immense furore- engaging the Beers
single handed and hailing shrapnel
with lyddite shells on the Notifications
north of the town in a vain effort to
silence the murderous fire of the Beers
while the British forced the passage of
the river
The advance of the Second brigade
along the road leading to the bridge
in the face Of a deadly fusillade is de-
scribed as magnificent The British
forced their way across the fire zone
under a perfect storm of bullets from
the invisible Beers. The patter of bull
lets on the dry plain, it is said. raised
the dust like heavy rain drops on water
The heat throughout was intense. There
were many stories of special acts of
bravery.
The Duke of Marlborough. who is
a lieutenant in the Oxfordshire Yeo-
many. and who has volunteered for
service in South Africa, will take with
him $50 men and horses of his troop.
He Will personally furnish the equip
ment for these men.
Tho Earl of Warwick, the Earl of
Dudley. the Earl of Lonsdale and Wis
count Galway are among the other
menbous of the aristocracy who have
volunteered for service in the cam
paign against the Beers.
The parting message which General
Lord Roberts sent yesterday through
the Associated Press to the American
people is republished in London today, \
and occupies the foremost place in the
afternoon papers here. which charac-
fez-iZe the straight, simple words as
esninently soldierly and as having the
proper ring which. it is claimed. should
mark the relations between the Anglo
Saxon peoples. Although il arrived too
Oh its contents, the display headlines
show that his reference to Americas
friendliness and Canada's patriotism.
and his Reputation of Irish disloyalty.
are widely approved.
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
went by train from Windsor to Farm
borough this morning, and spent an
hour with ex-Empress Eugene. The
queen has been greatly annoyed by the
unfounded statements that she is in i'll
health and perpetually weeping. A
paragraph contradicting these stories
appears in the papers. which add that
it has never been her majesty's habit |
t. display grief like a hysterical school
girl
The Allan steamers Laurentia. Paris
ian and Pomerain have been chartered |
by the government for the purpose of |
conveying Canadian troops to South |
Africa
General Roberts bade farewell to the |
Prince of Wales at Marlborough house.