The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
Established 1898.
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parts Don't make jest of it, man.
the Boer said gravely; rather thank God
you are a living man this moment 1t
was His hand that saved you; nothing else
could have done so. He spoke reverent
iy; there was no cant In the sentiment he
uttered-his face was too open, too manly,
too fearless for hypocrisy. How long is
1t since was knocked over? About three
hours. Is my comrade dead?' Quite
dead the Boer replied; death came in
stantly to him. He was shot through the
BRAIN Poor beggarl' I muttered ard
he'll have to rot on the open veldt,
SUPPOSED?
The Boer leaders face flushed angrlly
Do you take us for savages?' he asked.
Rest easy. You friend will get decent
burial. What was his rank? War cor
respondent And your OWN War cor
respondent. also. My papers are In my
pocket somewhere Sir said the Boer
leader, you dress exactly like two British
officers. You ride out with a fighting
party. You try to ride off at galop
under the very muzzles of our rifles when
we tell you to surrender. You can blame
no one but yourselves for this days work ;
I blame no man. ] played the game and
am paying the penalty. Then they told
me how poor Lambies horse had swerved
between myself and them after Lamb.e
had fallen. Then they saw me fall for
ward in the saddle, and they knew | was
hit. few strides later one of them
had sent a bullet through my horses head,
and he rolled on top of me- Yet with 1t
all had escaped with a Craze over the
right temple and badly injured shoulder.
Truly, as the Boer said, the hand of God
must have shielded me-
Mr.. Hales later in his recital of what he
saw, says:
81 have made II my business to get
about among the private soldiers, 10 uues-
ton them concerning the treatment they
have received since the moment the Maui
ser rifles tumbled them over, and | saw
emphatically that in every solitary in
stance, without one single exception, our
countrymen declare that they have been
grandly treated Not by the hospital
nurses only, not by officials alone. but
by the very men whom they were fight
ing. Our Tommies' are not the men TO
waste praise on any men unless it is well
deserved, but this is just about how
Tommy sums up the situation:
" The Boer is a rough-looking beggar
IN che field e don't wear no uniform md
e don't know enough about soldiers drill
to keep himself warm, but e can, fight In
is own bloomiu' style, which amt our
style. IF ed come out on the veldt md
fight us our way we'd lick i'm every time.
but when ii comes to fghtin' in the kop-
jes, why. the Boer is a dandy, md If the
rest of Europe don't think so, only let
'em have try at i'm md see But when
e had shot you he acts like a blessed
Christian, md bears no malice. Els like
a bloomin' South Sea cocoanut, not muah
to look AT outside, but white nd sweet
inside when yer know i'm. It's when
you're wounded md a prisoner that you
get a chance to know i'm. See?' And
Tommy is about correct in his judg-
ment."
War Test of Men.
Judging from the number of prominent
officers marking time along the British
lines of communication many of them,
writes Bennet Burleigh to the Daily Te1e-
graph, have been found out" He says:
'I am satisfied that in at least one in
stance a certain leader by his tactics al
lowed 900 Beers to slip free when they
should have been caught 90 man. For
that he and others have been transformed
into forwarding agents directors gener-
al of bully beef and biscuits, instead of.
as they aspired to me, leaders of men in
the field But instances OF mistaken vo-
cations due 10 heart and head weaknesses
are not rare even in the military profess
sion. II is real surprise and comfort
TO find that Field Marshal Lord Roberts
vigorously deals with such cases and will
not tolerate the round peg in the square