The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-14
WINSTON CHURCHILL HERE
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| Churchill was by no means disappoint-
ed in it's hopes of the famous CORE
/ spondent, for in his speaking he is
witty and fully as graphic and inter-
esting as in his writings. Mr.. Church
ILL was introduced by Dean Francis
Wayland of the Yale Law school. Dean
Wayland said: Young America has
won for itself quite reputation for
precocious development. 1t is with
great pleasure that I introduce to you
a gentleman representative of young
England. At an age when Yalesmen
are but just receiving their degrees
Mr.. Churchill had already made
name for himself in two hemspheres,
on the battlefield and in the department
of letters. Mr.. Churchill, descended as
he is from the best blood Of England
and Aemrica, is at least one beneficial
result of Anglo-American matrimony.
/ take pleasure in presenting our Eng
lish cousin, Winston Spencer Churchill
M. p"
Mr.. Churchill spoke in part as fol
lows: when l received instructions
from the English paper I represented
W tame Sillp ibl lit lldiiSNbtti l. llttiC
anticipated the hardships awaiting me.
We landed in Cape Town last year on
the 8th of October, and found the situa-
tion in Cape Colony dark and critical.
The Beers were then numerically SUI
perior to the British troops and the in
itiative rested with them. In Natal the
situation was worse. A few troops
numbering about 1000 men were en-
camped thirty miles south of Natal,
and it was their task to make this force
appear as large as possible. Daily for
this purpose large recommending parties
were sent out. But they were sent out
once too often, for one trainload of $40
men ran into the jaws of the advance
ing Boer army and was promptly de-
rallied. The men with great difficulty
managed to clear the track of the shat
tered car trucks and some of them
made their escape on the engine and
tender. Seventy were killed"
1t was on this occasion that Mr.
Churchill was captured. He described
the strange spectacle of the fugitive To-
connective, swarming with men on the
cowcatcher and tender, the cab filled
with wounded men, the front of the en-
CINE on fire and water pouring from the
tender as the engine fled over the |
plains This was the blow that began
the war. Mr.. Churchill continued: II |
was not able to get away on the en-
CINE, and was driven in with an igno-
minious horde and marched toward |
Pretoria. This experience I have al
ready embodied in a book which have |
T a.l-I i
vertise this book here I hope everyone
here will make it their business to pro-
cure it. (Laughter). However, for this
evening I will pass on to ground which
has not yet been opened up"
Several illustrations then followed,
one that of typical Boer-"the most |
fighting man in the world
as Mr.. Churchill put it, at which the
audience smiled. '"Fhe Boer possesses
A certain individual quality and power
If initiative that enables him to fight
against the best troops of
Europe, notwithstanding some dispar-
" in numbers" daughter
A model of a heavy Boer gun was
next shown. THE Beers have taught
he world good deal in military mat
ers, particularly in employing heavy L
artillery for the field. Their siege guns
Used in the field made quite an impress
lion OH our troops GaughteN. and T !,
hink it does them great credit" A K
picture of Maiuba Hill was followed {
~ portraits OF some of the men con-
lected with the war. The English |
GENERALS were received with silence, fol-
owed by applause when Mr.. Churchill
emarked that these pople were al
Ways cheered when I showed their ric-
ures through Great Britain" A South
african kopje, zone Of those scrubby,
eceitful, thickety hills which few
etermined rihemen can hold as A
ortress. In advancing upon one of
hem a British company is sure to
taste hours to compel handful of !,
Soers to retire to an equally conven- f
ent and difficult kopje not more than a