Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-15
HORRORS o. |RE WAR.
Further Interesting Details Of Bat.
ties in the South African
Conflict.
Soldiers Who Participated in the
Bloody Fights Write of Their
Experiences.
Battle Elandslaagte One of Awful
Severity More About Mod
der River.

London. Jan. 6.-correspondence of
the Associated Press Letters from the
soldiers fighting against the Beers are
published in large numbers, and in.
many cases are just as interesting as
the accounts by trained war CORE
spondents. A medical officer under
Lord Methuen. describing the battle Of
Modder river, writes
a lot of the North Lancashire men
We're horribly wounded. ] turned over
4 sergeant. black III the face, dead one
man Was brought to me who had been
struck by shell fragment-face mus
tilated, throat cut, and chest lacerat-
ed,
II went out near sunset TO aid the
Highlanders. They had been all day
under that fiightfu sun and their
wounded Mere still there. No stretcher
bearers could advance. as they Mere all
shot at They Shouted 10 me to crawl
on the ground. as there We're stil three
or four Beers. with express rifles and
explosive bullets. who We're under cover,
and who kept picking off our men. Some
men utterly collapsed. and all could
do was TO put a pad 10 their wounds
and my whisky flask to their lips. |
ihen crawlcd back TO my horse and
made my way to some aninulances Two
miles distanttn get their aid 1 was UNI
der fire all the time. bullets dancing
around ms. ] felt a kind of solemn dis
regard. as had been exposed 10 greater
dangers before
In a letter written to his father from
Mooi river on NOV. IS an officer in the
Queens Royal West Surrey regiment
gays:
Against an enemy like the Beers IN
fartry isuseless The Beers have spies
everywhere. and as they are well
mounted they can move away hours be-
fore our infantry can get within stsik-
ing distance. on the other hand. they
VIII never attack. and When we advance
toward Pretoria companies viii be left
all oyer ,he country looting and burn
Ing farms. The only people who have a
chance With them are the local volun-
teers. II The government Only would
raise about : 900 volunteers and send
sout q las OF MOUNTED! infantry 10 work
With the local volunteers these Isolated
Boer forces would soon he wiped out
g9At present We are helpless. as they
make rings around u.s.
The special correspondent, OF the Cape
Argus thus described bombardment of
Kimberley
What probably viii be handed down
lin the Annals OF history to Bner poster
4 icy as il1e bomhardment Of Kimberley
@ccGrred on Tuesday Nov :. aud If
vsr the farcicsl element We're intro
jdMeed in such a serious business as war
Il
lean surely lay dunn 10 II. The Beers
NIX. trained Oh the Premier mine al
\ Nesselton. at q fange Of something like
! 200 yards. ard the other on SpEifon-
tein. quite 200 Yards distant. 4 couple
Of shots We're fred between - ard G
o'clock iii the morning, but then the
Beers desisued until TO- when one gun
II scholz Mex, apparently Il nine
4 pNunaer tiring rs French Shell, opened
1 iire IN W-esseltoil. The fire. however
i3pfeved quite harmless nearly all tbs
shots falling in the debric heaps. arc
our guns At Wssselton. replying ald
-lquiekly getting tie range, induced tbs
l5enelny 10 cease firing. and they clearec
off about loon 50 little was thougfl
Ief the Boer fire that The alarm was MOI
leven sounded. and business was carried
ON Just tile same. Thus ended tht
! pen1pardment IL Kimberley. So LITTLE
Marin did it cause that the men in tbs
Iredoubts were actually playing crieke
and duoits while il was going on"
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