The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-30
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photographs by Frederic Unger. late
correspondent in South Africa for the
Daily Express, London. Henry II.
Coates & Co, Philadelphia, publishers.
Cloth, $3.50. 1t would be difficult to
nnd more interesting book than this.
Inc author was first with the British
and then with the Beers. His book
bears evidence that he has confined
himself to facts--to his personal ex-
perlence and observations The fol-
lowing extract from the book gives
some indication of it's character:
Then two sets of stretcher- bearers
went out to carry in the wounded men,
Here was golden opportunity to get
photographs of this incident, and /
went out into the open with my ko-
OAK and snapped half a dozen films.
The sun was almost at the horizon and
/ was somewhat excited. The stretch
er-bearers were running, and when
they came back to the wall l had to
drop my camera to help lift the
stretcher with it's load, over to safety
behind. All this resulted in my pic
lures being partly spoiled, either by in
sufficient exposure, due to poor light,
or else, in my excitement, / moved the
camera and blurred the photographs.
About ten minutes after the last man
was biOu5Al III was SldHulHS ny llic
Maxim when a Tommy called to me,
The Captain is still out there While
he was pointing out to me just where
the Captain fell, l saw a tall figure
jump over the wall some distance be-
low me and run out to where the Cap
tain lay, sixty to a hundred yards out
he having fallen at least twenty-five
yards ahead of any of his men. 1t
was an ambulance surgeon. whose
name l afterward learned was Moore.
Going up to the Captain, he quickly
lay down beside him. At first thought
he had been shot, but after a min
ute's examination he stood up, and I
saw him trying to lift the wounded
Captain upon his shoulder The officer
was heavy man, and the doctor was
having a good bit of trouble. Just
then at their feet I saw a splash of
dust a foot or so high, then another
and another, and | knew that the en-
envy was firing on them. Great Scott
They don't see that they are firing on
a rescuing party I thought.
81 ran out to help the doctor, and
as l came up to him he said, Help
me get him on my back l tried, but
the man was too heavy, so the doctor
rolled the upper part of him into my
arms, holding the other end himself,
ana we SldTIeu W Iuil OdNhs Han
way we dropped our burden for rest.
'Zing! Zing!' sounded overhead.
"'Why. those devils are shooting at
us!' I gasped.
Certainly, answered the doctor.
Come, we mustn't stay here. Don't
stop to lift him; take hold of his
straps and. Selling him by his belt
and breast feathers, we dragged him
another twenty-five yards. Then two
Tommies came to our help, and the
four of us lifted the Captain and car
ried him back and over the wall, and
laid him down on the clean grass be-
hind the Maxim, where further surgi-
cal assistance came to DR.. Moore. 1
went over to where the Dukes were sit
ting, and, thoroughly exhausted, threw
myself down on the ground to rest.
1.-The thought that the Beers had
been shooting at the doctor and me
while we were plainly rescuing party
put me in a fury. | thought TO my
self they didn't hit us because they
were in their hearts so ashamed OF
their act that they could not aim
straight An officer came up, ana,
pointing to a smear of blood on my
breast and sleeve said, I hope you are
not hurt?' No, l wasn't, but was get
ting very angry. Then, as l thought
of how my little mare had been Grip
pled-the one that a night or so before
had stepped over me while | was half
asleep on the veldt, carefully nItlng
her feet so as not to step on me-a
lump seemed to come UP in my throat,
and I am not ashamed to own to a
moistening of the eyes. Just then 1
heard the men shouting. :.
There they go! They're clearing!
"I Jumped up, and there, sure
antlika GnaCKg ON
the veIdt, half a mile away, swiftly
gliding up the slope of the veldt to-
ward the kopjes. The soldiers all
around were firing furiously. The
thought of my little mare and the
wounded captain urged me to action.
I took a rifle out of a Tommy's hand,
and, lifting it to my shoulder, took
long, careful aim at the little group
of fast-riding Beers. My finger was
on the trigger. and ] was about TO
pull; but something seemed to say,
You'll be sorry for this some day
and / dropped the gun for second.
raised it again with a smile at my SEN
and then, as / shifted 1t
a little to get the range, which had
increased considerably in the few sec
onds I had wasted, / seemed to see
picture in one OF my old
school books 1t was the rough wood
cut of the gathering at Lexington,
showing several dead bodies stretched
on the village green, with a file of
redcoats, smoking rifles in hand, drawn
up opposite; then out of the retreat
10 Boston, with Yankee Beers behind
every tree and farm yard, pouring their
aint-lock fire on the disordered col
lmn, while the church bells all over
the country were ringing wildly; then
[ saw the charge UP Bunkers Hill, the
iisordered fight down. the final taking
Of the crest at the point of the bay
onet; in short, the Shot heard round
The world came thrilling down the
century into the heart of the veldt,
and I heard it's echo in South Africa.
There are the things l seemed TO see
and hear while looking through the
sights OF British rife in the Free
state; and as l realized that those
little black specks, now almost reach
ing the cover of the kopjes,, were mere
Iy minute-men of another century rid
ing for freedom that they might con-
tinue to fight for liberty and indepen-
dence, as my ancestors had doubtless
done many times, l dropped the rifle,
and to this day / devoutly thank God
| did not fire the shot. Since then the
folds OF the American flag have
had a different meaning to me, and I
do not hesitate TO adopt a British GUS
tom in respect to 1.-THE Englishman
always raises his hat when he passes
his country's flag"
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