The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-22

inhicting several really serious wounds. He states that he desires to go back to
 Saltwater, and is now in jail awaiting
 the arrival of the State Agent
 A silver medal, bearing the image of Queen Victoria and engraved with hls name and the superecription, "Burma, | 1SS5-1SS7," led to the discovery of his identity and his story regarding his service in the British Army, and his | bravery in the Burman campaign, IS l fully corroborated by documents from the British War Office, which he still has in his possession. In speaking ot | his experiences while in Lord Roberta's command, he says:
 | T was sent from Madras to Rangoon, at the outbreak of the Burman war, and l 'Bobs,' who was at that time Command CT in Chief of the forces in India, ac- companied by the troops and took gen. eral charge of the operations. We cap-' tured Mandalay, and the Burman King, who was one of the most cruel indiv!d- | uals who ever disgraced humanity, was sent as hostage to some point in lnd'a. I don't know just where. His troops scattered, and under the general direc- tion of Busheway began warfare ex- actly similar to that which Aguinaldo ie now waglng upon the Am ercans. Lord Roberts established his headquar- ters at Mandalay and we were sent up the Irrawaddy in detac1n entS in pur- suit of Busheway and his scattered bands.
 Every soldier in the army fairly worshipped Roberts, or 'Bobs as we al- ways called him, and the reason they thought so much of Jim was because he treated them right. 1e was just tbe opposite of Wolseley. When we were tired out with forced marches he would allow us drink of rum in tn, evening, while Wolse1ey wanted b cut every so.- dier down to cup of coffee and some quinine Then he would allow Us extra rations in cases of except'o ally had work, and he always looked out that we got our clothing money. Vols elcH's idea was always to cut down expenses, and the private soldier was the man who suffered, but Rooerts always treat ed us right, and the men were always ready to fight to the death under his orders
 We found the Burmans plucky fght- CTS but as they were armed with anti
 
 long against our Martinis, and the war fare resembled that which Is TOW being carried on in the Philippines, although we lost far more men than the Ameri- cans are losing. The Bulmans "sre short of ammunition, and sometimes loaded their muskets with naila and other materials, and, as the guns were great unwieldly weapons, a discharge from one of them seem q like a whole volley. In one battle we lost forty men and were compelled to retlra On secur- ing endorsements we again advanced and on reaching our 'ormer battle ground, found that the enemy lad cut off the heads and otherwise mutilated our dead and had thal hung them up by the feet. They were far more cruel people than the Filipinos and when fighting we never fired 1ur last shot, every man desiring to nave means oe putting an end to himself in case he was in danger of being captured. We had | learned that the few or.sc;let's which | the Burmans had taken had bael put l to frightful tortures and we did not | wish to share their fate
 We had several companies of spoys with us. They always fought fairly well, but they Were ungovernably slow on the march and everywhere else. They are not equal to white soldiers, although think they can be depended upon and will do some good fighting in case Eng land ever crosses swords with Russia for the possession of India
 We pursued Busheway for months, and finally came upon him unawares. He was encamped In valley and had about 5000 of his men with him, when we came upon him 5000 strong. A vol ley from the heights above was the first intimation he had of our presence in the vicinity. His followers fled after ! brief resistance, Busheway having been killed early in the fight. His death lid not put an end to the guerilla war 'are however, and do not believe that he capture of Aguinaldo is going to re- store order in the Philippines. The 3urman warfare continued until we had l sufficient force to place garrison in every town of any considerable size md keep 1t there for some time, and if he Fiipinos are anything like the Bur- mans that is what is going to have to ,e done over there. T left the service on account of sun- ! troke, having been stricken while rid ( ng a pony on the banks of Irrawaddy." Minneapolis (Minn.) Journal.