The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-06
B()ER HELPER CTS HONE
DIR. H. H. M'AULEH. OF IRISH AM
BULANCE COMPS OF CHICA-
GO, RETURNS
NEW STORIES OF WAR TOLD
Members of Rcd Cross Organization
Tell Why They Dropped Hospital
Work and JOiued the
Fighting Ranks.


DR.. Herbert Hudson McAuley, of Cki-
cago. who went to the Transvaal last Feb
ruarv as a member of the Chicago Boer
Ambulance corps, returned home Yester-
day. A large party Of friends were at the
depot TO meet the well-known physician,
who, according to Dynamite DICK, was
the most fearless doctor in the B0er sefN-
ice.
The Beers are the most malisped AID
and misrepresented people in the world,
said DR.. McAuley. AS to their being ig-
norant the rank and file far exceed the
like in Intelligence of the British army
The Beers are on the beSt footing ara
better organized today than they ever
have been. To- my positive knowledge
they have sufficient rifles am nuI ITO /
buried to arm a larger army than is n
the field at present
''When Great Britain receives a truth
full revised death list it viii appalI Ter
people, as l know that it has bSea at
least % per cent greater than reported.
Englshmen are good fellows as long
as things come their way, but they are
most unpleasant losers.
THE Portuguese arrested me at Lolrea-
co Marques without charge Or war ant,
and would not give me d trial. All of my
instruments, medicines ana Cu.ios,
valued at nearly Sl0,090, Were con.is y ted.
] have reported this to the United States
state department and it is for it 10 de-
eide whether these half-breeds have a
right to throw United States citizens into
q vile prison without cause or reason.
RED CROSS IMPORTANT
''I saw enough good fighting to last
me for a time I stuck to the Red Cross
through thick and thin. To my mind,
the success of the Red Cross society Is
of more Importance to the world in its
humaniZiug effect than the victory of
eiah'r Roer Briton
''The Beers do not desire any one to
go TO the Transvaal unless he can pur-
chase his own horse. as they cannot be
hampered with infantry. Ii was mostly
on this account that the IrisImen had to
return 20 Chicago. No better fighters
landed on South African soil than the
Irish contingent which went from Chi
cago to help the Beers"
Several anxious members of the Irish
American ambulance corps met al the
Seventh regiment armory last night to
discuss the reported capture OF General
Dew e.. The meeting resolved itself
into an informal reunion, and many hith-
erto unpublished incidents OF the war
were told.
All aereed that Dewet would never be
captured. as he is too good tactician,
and the general opinion was that he is
layinE trap for III" thrte Is. itish gen.
erals who are endeavoring to surround
him. Anxiety to be back in the fed vas
expressed by all present, as many of the
returned warriors are out of or unable to
find v-o~k. tier former positions 1ving
been filed during their absence.
When the corps returned TO Chicago re-
Gently the members We're inclined 20 be
rather secTetive regarding some of their
experiences in the TrdnsVaal, but tns
facts are gradually coming to light, as
well as the reason for abandoning the
red cross badge and adopting fighting
methods.
when we were in Lisbon" began
Lieut.. D. l.. DAILY, who acted as hospital
sergeant for the local contingent oil the
firing line, 1--WE were treated royalty by
Mr.. Irwin, the American minister, so you
can imagine our chagrin on reaching
Lourenzo Marques, the Portuguese COVER
nor showed us the following telegram
from his home government:
Show no courtesy to the Irish-Amer-
lean ambulance corps. Their government
refuses to request it.
IRWIN NOT BLAMED.
AT that time We were a bona-fide
hospital corps. l want to say, however,
for the action of the Portuguese au-
thCrities, as he was exceedingly kind to
us. However,. the half-breeds at Lou
reno Marques refused to recognize Miss
Clara Barton's letter or our Red Cross
badges. At first they declined to let us
go through Portuguese territory, but
Capt O'Connor would rot be bluffcd, and
said he would get to Lourenzo MARQUES
II he had to fight every foot Of the way.
1t was at this juncture that Mr.. Hollis,
the American minister, as well as his
wife, grand woman, by the way, came
to our aid, and, on making affidavit that
1t was not our intention to fight, we were
allowed to go through. However, so
much disregard was shcWn-for the Red
Cross and so little protection was offered
US on its account that we eventually
made up our minds we would have to
fight, particularly as there was no other
manner in which the Beers could use
US, and we didn't want TO come home
without showing our practical sympat thy
with them.
None OF our regular doctors aban-
doncd the Red Cross, but the rank and
file went on the firing line However,
Ross D. Long, one of cur Chicago con-
tlngent, die worse than either abandon
the Red Cross or take up arms for the
Beers, for which we We're condemned by
g great many people. When we went to
Smaldeei, Long went to Pretoria, and
was supplied with mules and an outfit
by the government and sent to some
commando north of Pretoria He re-
turned in a few days and sold his mules
and other equipment and with the money
be went to Natal into British territory
and acted as surgeon for the British
troops, and then opened a drug store in