The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-26
IRISH HELPERS OF
THE BOER CAUSE
Arrival in N W York of the
Chicago Ambu ancs
Corps.

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Trave, which arrived
this morning. had on board thirty-four of
the Chicago Irish Ambulance Corps who
fought IN the TransvaaL They were met
at quarantine to arrange for their land
ing and reception. The delegation con-
sisted of Vice President Buckley, Patrick
ECan DR.. O'Neill and j. j. Judge.
The returned Irishmen are all in good
health and spirits and greeted the dele
cation cordially, saying they were glad
to get back. They were all clad COM
fortably in winter clothing and looked AS
If they did not suffer for means. Their
soft, broad-brimmed felt hats were dec-
grated with buttons and other insignia
of the soldiers.
O. on their arrival i'm this city they were
escorted to the Vanderbilt Hotel, where
they were entertained. The original num-
Der of the corps who went to South Al
RIGA was hfJy-eight. One was killed, one
wounded, one taken prisoner, some are
in the hospital, and some remain in South
Africa. The corps left South Africa for
home about a month and a half ago, 60
ing first to Trieste, and from there to Par
is They boarded the Trave at Cherbourg.
John Escholman, who went out under
General Hassell as a scout, said the men
had all given "a good account of them
selves.
NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Among the
American scouts and Irish cavairymen
lust arrived in this country after service
in the Boer army are Private 7. A. Bel
ford of Ireland and j. n. King of Call
fornia, better known as Dynamite Dick.
I'VE are all members said Bedford, "of
the Irish Brigade, which was commanded
by an American-Colonel Johnny Blake
formerly of the Sixth United States cav
airy, and a West Point graduate. This
war is not near over, Notwithstanding Ie-
ports to the contrary. Read the reported
losses of the English, which they say in
their dispatches are due to 'enteric' fever
1t is not the enteric fever or any other
kind of enteric affection that is doing the
work. 1t is Mauser bullets and nothing
else
I'VE were in the field from October 9Th
. 1895 to the second day of last month; then
We sailed from Lourenzo Marques for Tri-
este, en- route to America. We were al
Spion KoI, Colenso, the siege of Lady
smith, Mo-uerspruit, besides many Other
engagements. AS regards craftsmanship
especially with small arms, the Beers car
give the English cards and spades and
still beat them with their eyes shut. Dur
ing fight on Oct. 18th, 800 Johannesburg
policemen fought 1,500 entrenched Eng
lish, captured their works, with LIS mer
and killed the rest. This gives an idea OF
how the Boer can shoot.
, "It sounds strange, but it is true-I new.
err saw a Union Jack or a regimental fias
during all the war The only flag the
, British ever showed was white one, anC
/ never heard of a white Union Jack.
when the poor old President left fol
Europe. General Botha in his order to hi:
men announcing the departure said: Nov
that the poor old man is safe, let the
fighting begin This was the Inaugural
,tion of guerrilla warfare. The English
officers are a queer set. French is the
hest of the lot. Butler is the bulldog Of
the crowd. He has no feeling for his men
On one occasion a detachment of troop:
in his command refused to storm a Boel
stronghold to face which was certain
death. In his anger Butler turned a bat
terry of artillery on them and seventy
three of them were killed"
Dynamite Dick King said the scouts haC
an experience similar to the Irishmen IL
most cases, one of their duties having
been to dynamite the railways, His par
!, ticipation I'm this duty. he said, accounted
for his sobriquet. He said that the de
: tachment was discourteously treated b!
the authorities at Lourenzo Marques, tn
Portuguese having imprisoned them TO
six days on a troop-ship before alowins
them to board the Austrian-Lloyd steam
ship Styra, on which they sailed TO
, Trieste.