Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-12
BoERs ARE FRESHMEN.

A correspondent OF the Times. writ.
ing from Lourenzo Marques, says;
A Dutchman gives an interesting &C
cout Of a visit he recently paid to the
Boer camp at Colenso. He made a
short stay al the tent OF Gen. Joubert,
who at the time was engaged with his
secretary and the telegraph wires, while
close at hand and under the same can
vas his sturdy spouse was placldly
peeling potatoes as II no fatal issues
were hanging In the balance. The rites
Of hospitality were observed by the
commandant general ordering the ma
tive wench Eva, who has accompanied
him and his good spouse through many
fierce campaign, to bring the national
beverage, coffee.
At the camp an Irish fuslleer. who
had just fallen into the hands OF the
Beers, remarked in conversation, Sure.
all the Beers Oive met have been Irish.
men," Certainly the collection was a
most cosmopolitan one. There were a
few Afrlkanders among them but the
majority were either Americans. Ital-
ians or Greeks. In the near neighbour
hood Judge Kock and the general were
cracking whips and stimulating lazy
mules into activity, hitching and un-
hitchng harness, greasing wheels and
notching disselbooms. as II such were
the ordinary Occupations OF the chair
man OF the first volkraad and a judge
Of the Supreme Court.
GHASTLINEss AT sPIoN KoP.
London, March S.-Correspondence OF
the Associated Press.-For real ghast-
illness. for glimpse into the CORY reali-
ties Of war, and the horrors Of the bat
tlefield, the private letter Of a young
medical officer at Spion Kop printed in
the Daily Graphic. can scarcely be beat
en-. Il selected pass" he writes, over
hung by steep clay banks, on the top
OF which / got up Red Cross flag,
Cases now began 10 pour down
from Spion Kop on stretchers.
The Beers opened fire on us, and three
bullets went into the fire, knocking the
sticks about. The reason for this fire
was not the Red Cross flag, but owing
10 some Tommies who were strolling
over to II, either to take cover there or
TO see what we were doing. | prompt
ly ordered them away. A few minutes
after the Beers let fire five shells In
quick succession In my direction but
they fell short. and did no harm This
sort of thing went on round me for the
rest OF the day, but ! always kept well
In the shelter Of the bank.
From this time 60 ten o'clock next
morning the wounded came through my
dressing station as the pass was the on
~ exit from the hill / saw every case,
and some Of them were mutilated be-
yond description.
WOUNDED AND DEAD.
Fully $50 wounded and dead who
had died on the way passed through my
hands. The cheerfulness OF the wound
ed struck me as remsrkable-men with
shattered wounds smoking their pipes,
and although starving, not a grumble
did ] hear. Many a poor chap shot In
the morning In the front trenches who
could not be reached, lay in the blazing
sun all day. one old colonial In Thorn
eyorofts. with a grey beard walked
down leaning on his rifle; he was
mass OF wounds-one ear cut through
by q bullet. his chin. neck and chest
also shot through By others, and his
back and legs torn by she'll. He came
IN and said he just dropped In to let
me take his finger OFF. as Il was so shat
tered he could not pull the trigger OF
his rifle, as II got In the way OF the
next finger, which he could use, for