The evening times., 1900-02-28
Ad,nncing to Dundce.

General Colley's resting place with strange
feelings.
advancing 40 Dundee.
The weather was continually wet cold
and thuuIery We had 10 sleep on The wet
ground. with only q blanket TO coysr us
and very little more 20 eat but dry bread
so ! can assure you IL was no; very invit-
ing. Slowly we advanced with the guns.
The inhabitants had all left except a few
farmers. We broke open the shops which
we passed and took all provisions and TO.
( bacco. II was a rough time. but we did
nothing of which We need De ashamed. We
took Newcastle which we found abau-
G0Eed and a quantity Of booty. After this
we advanced to Dundee. but stopped a few
days at a place about one and a half
hours distant from there Friday. October
20. a part Of our army under General Lu-
I cas- Meyer attacked the British with 5.CCC
men with a few guns and Maxims. but our
general Erasmus I'D nJt~efce him timely
assistance. so We only heard the roar OF the
/ guns. n We had Joined them IN time we
could have turEcd this fight into brilliant
victory TO our arms As II was. they
fought from a. M until sunset and then
! our troops slowly retired
we lost thirty-one killed and between
forty and fifty wounded. The British lost
dead and wounded away. Nearly a week
after the fight we still found forty very
much decomposed bodies That same day
800 Lancers came our way. Two friends
and myself took our positions. and by con-
tinually firing turned them Dur numbers
having grown 20 fifteen we succeeded iu
bringing them to a st9ndstilI and kept
them in their place for over an hour. By
that time We numbered eighty and one
gun. when the fourth shell fell close 70
them they hoisted the white flag and we
tcck them all prisoners Coming hack TO
our camp We were told that if We could
capture any horses from the enemy they
would become our property. The night
following I captured one in the British
camp and brought IL safely back After
this we bOmbarded and took Dundee"
The Hasuto Cavalry.
Trooper Frank Parks. Of the Cape
Mounted Rifles. writing to the Morning
Leader" from East Griquaiand. says. Il
! have plenty Of work TO do and / am hardly
l ever out Of the saddle. Last week I was
wet through for three days; not a dry
/ thing 10 put on nor anything dry 20 sleep
| in. and our food is not Of the best. In
/ stead Of giving US bread they serve-us out
/ -four. How can a can make bread and
] cook meat in a storm on the veldt2 I have
I been fortunate. enough to catch a spy from
, Barkly. He has not been tried yet I do
not think the Beers viii come into East
| Griqualand. because they are frightened
Of the Basutos who are the finest light
cavalry in the world. They can ride down
an almost perpendicular mountain on their
ponies They showed the English what
they could do in the BasutO war"
Red Cross nurse. OF Colchester. tells
OF the visit OF General Roberts and Cen
eral Kitchener to the Majestic, proceeding
I 4. i'll
from the front Their arrival caused a
great deal OF excitement especially Gen.
| eral Roberts YhO is a great favOrite with
| every Tommy: indeed I may say every
one that knows anything OF him. Before
| leaving the vessel he enquiTed into the
| nature Of each individual case. and left
many a soldier with smile, in spite Of
his sad condition more touching scene
it is impossible TO describe-the grand old
man taking leave Of his boys. His crepe
badge which he was wearing for the
death Of his son, brought many tears to
their eyes"
On the day before the CoIenso battle
Sergeant Baugh watched the play OF the
artillery on the BOer trenches, and thus
! records his impressions: 4 borrowed the
captains field glasses and went up on the
| hill by our guns but was chased away by
artillery officers. When they chased me
from one side OF the hill l always man.
aged to get up the other side. They let
me alone at the finish Well. the shooting
was splendid. / could see our shells burst
ing right in their trenches But what I
could not make out at the time was why
the Beers did not reply. II did not strike
me that I might get hit If they did shoot ]
found out afterward that their guns would
not shoot as far as ours. All the time we
were shelling l only saw about thirty of
the enemy and after our guns put four
shells among them nothing could be seen
Of them"
The Rush for Water.
Describing the rush for water after the
battle, Color Sergeant Baugh concludes: 4
took a party down to stream to get wa
ter. will not tell you what 1t is like to
be thirsty when you can hardly speak and
your lips are as black as mine Whea /
reached the stream 1 saw lots Of others the
same. At the waters side it was enough
to make one Ill. Wounded men who had
managed to get there were lying down,
some dead beat and asleep. others groaning
with their wounds. In the water muddy
eOunl we're fhrna hnrcca. - uprp dead