The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-26
Eeattle Man Has Three Brothers
in the English Army.
HOLD IMPORTANT POSITIONS.
Two OF Them Are Veterans OF In
dian ana Egyptian campaigns-
Louis Il. Broome, the Seattle
brother, says EngIand Must Win
.-British Troops Have Yet some-
thing to Learn From the Boers.

That Englands best blood Is being
spilled In South Africa in quantities to
fairly stagger the mino n proven every
time the dispatches tell or an encounter
between the British and the Beers. When
s'Tommy Atkins gets mixed up in row
with his Dutch foe on the dusty kopje
his officers do not hide behind shelter.
but stand with the privates in the face
Of the bullet storms from the Boer
trenches. These officers come from tho
most aristocratic families in England,
Louis E. Broorne, of this city, has two
brothers now In active service In South
Africa and third brother who has re-
ceived notice from the war office to pre-
pare to Join his regiment at the front.
The three Englishmen are officers. and
two of them are veterans Of many O.
bloody campaign in India and In Egypt.
Mr.. Broome, who comes from fighting
stock, Is at present In the employ OF
the British-American line. He Is a
young man who came out from England
last spring. and after short stay at
Cape Nome last summer entered the
employ Of the company.
The case of Mr. Broome's family is not
the only one where the sons of fighting
ancestors, holding commissions in the
English army are engaged with the
queens forces in reducing "Oom' Paul
Kruger to subsection. The Broome FAM
lily is typical case. Col. Sir George Bar
kerr who commanded the British artillery
in the Indian mutiny almost a half CEN
fury ago, was the first husband OF the
English woman who Is the mother of
the three officers in the British army. His
son, who is Mr.. Louis Broome's half
brother, Is Col. c. Crole Windhan1, of
the Twenty-third Lancers. who was Sec
ond In command with Kitchener In the
late Soudan campaign Col. Windhams
name was Barker, but when young man
he changed 1t for family reasons to Wind
ham, under which name he is now known.
Col. Windham's horse was shot under
him during the celebrated charge against
the dervishes before Omdurman, and he
was rescued in the most gallant manner
by brother officer. Capt. Kenna, who
received the Victoria cross for the feat
The English war office has determined to
send more mounted troops to South Afri-
Ia, and Col. Windham's regiment, the
Twenty-first Lancers. being composed Of
veterans who have fought through India
and the soudan, is expected to render
fine service.
At Ladysmith Capt Guy g. Broome
royal artillery. is helping Gen. White to
hold of the Beers until reinforcements
arrive. Capt. Broome IS but 30 years old.
He is the youngest In the family, and has
already participated in several bloody sor-
ties against the Beers.
Inc tN1ru DrOtnef OF MT. BrOOme VINO
Is to play an important part in the Trans
vaaf war is Col. ]. 8. Barker, who has
lately landed with brigade of British
artillery at Cape Town and is now OH
his way to the front. Col Barker Is a
veteran of the Zulu campaign. and has
also seen hard service in Egypt. Like his
two brothers, fighting is his profession.
Col. Barker's command will use guns fir
ing lyddite shells.
Naturally, Mr. Broome follows with
keen interest every move made by the
struggling forces in South Africa.
'Wili England VIM" he was asked yes
terday.
"She must win." was his reply. typical
of British sentiment. Mr.. Broome, con-
tinuing. said:
''It has been demonstrated that the
English must learn some sessons In gen.
eralship and strategy from the Beers. A
quarter of a. century ago the English
thought nothing of marching shoulder to
shoulder in an open country in charge
against force OF opposing infantry.
Those tactics do not win now when the
enemy is intrenched and is supplied with
modern rapid-fire weapons. This is the
first war in which the men behind the
guns on either side were equally good
and when their arms were modern in ev-
cry sense. Smelling the trenches cross
firing and fianking are the tactics which
the British must use. The troops have
murderous fire from the intrenched Beers
and the slaughter has been terrible. But
when did the British quail? Never"