Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-23
MEN WHO FIGHT
BRITISH TODAY
Work Of a Brigade that is Contest
ing Gen, Buffers Advance.
COMMANDED BY AMERICAN.
Many Wen from the West How They
Conducted Themselves Before
Lady smith,

The United States army register con-
talns this entry;
John Y. Fillmore Blake born in
Missouri, appointed to the military
academy from Arkansas. became a ca
DEF Sept. LIST, 1876 received his commits
sion as second lieutenant June Y, 1850.
ana was assigned to the Sixth Cavalry,
made first lieutenant Oct. 8. 1887. ana
resigned from the service Aug. 10,
1882
Lieut.. Blake was In service with the
sixth United States cavalry, as will be
seen be- the dates, when that body OF
troops performed the extremely ardu-
Gus task Of whipping the Apache In.
dams In Arizona and New Mexico into
submission Now he Is the cammand-
or Of the Irish brigade In the Trans
yaal forces, and from bis past record
there Is no doubling the statement that
be Is a fighter There Ia another man
named In the letter which tells Of
Col Blake's cOmmand-Cas Is
known In Utah. having worked in
mines in this state. From Arizona ne
went to South Africa, and now turns up
IN the Irish brigade He saw service
IN fighting Indians. The foregoing In
formation viii lend additional interest
to the following, concerning the men
VINO are this day enaged IN resisting
the advance OF the British army under
Gen Butler, near Ladysmith; this IS
taken from last Saturdays edition OF
the Irish World. published al Mime.
apQlls, MINI:
The following letter from James +.
Dunn, q former resident OF Lowell,
Mass, now with the Beers. was re.
celved by friend, The utmost conf.
dence can be placed in his story. The
letter, which Is dated IN the field OUT
side Of Ladysmlth," Is as follows:
My Dear Dillou--I want 10 give you
some OF the real facts Of what is oc-
curing here The fact Is that an the
nonsense about the wrongs Of the ut-
landers was cooked up by the Rhodes
gang for the English papers.
Il have lived here for two years and
have yet TO learn that we have any
wronss-pollical religious, CONNER
cial or otherwise
The men who wronged and threat
ened and bull-d6zed the miners-I mean
the working miners-were the Rhodes
crowd. II was a great pity that jane
son. Hammond and the rest Of them
were not strung up after the raid.
when the war broke out brigades
OF foreigners were organized at once.
The Germans have brigade Of 1900
men or more nearly all men trained in
the army IN Germany and commanded
by trained officers of their own country.
Ihere is a mixed brigade Of French, !
scotch ana English, who have their /
own 0iflcersn and they are doing good. !
We have an Irish brigade OF over
g5oO men, the majority Of them from |
california and the West, with quite a |
sprinkling from the old country and the !
Cape, our commander Is Colonel |
Blake West Pointer. who used 10 be |
IN the regular cavalry at home and a /
Jim dandy tighter and a tactician thai |
West Point may be proud OF.
We art getting new men every day. /
they come IN from Lorenzo Marquez |
ana are from every country In Europe |
aud from the States. We have quite
number from around Boston, New
York and Philadelphia.
II was our hrlgade-we had abou,
llW On the hring line that day-that
scOoped IN the lrish fuslllers al Dun
dee ana mad the Iioer contingent had
hf'th NNfNitNAhN ~ NtAhtuIA matters We
could have 20! the whole Yule's
bunch, horse, foot and wagons. for
never saw worse beaten. demoralized
crowd than that same british army
General Joubert is n foxy old chan
and refuses TO let US take any chanoes
that are uncertain, and he Is dead
against any military grandstand tac-
ties. tie won't allow any charges or at.
tacks on fortified places he makes the
British do that business. and then he
soaks them.
The Consequence Is that the English
lose i've men killed and wounded where
we lose only one. We are now in.
lrenchlng around Ladysmith. with a
strong force down al the fords Of the
Iugela. intrenching and waiting for
that advance Of the British We are
promised.
we have White and about 10000
men cooped up In Ladysmlth, and we
VIII get the whole bunch as sure as
shooting. We have the hills overlook.
INK the town fortified, and we shell the
place occasionally 10 keep them guess
Ingi but We place reliance strongly on