The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-18

Now for 3O-lb. Kits.
 Bennett Burleigh, the well known Eng
 fish war correspondent, in recent let
 ter to the London Daily Telegraph
 gives an interesting account of tn
 work in South Africa. The Boers, ac
 cording to Burlelgh have lately takel
 to dashing at detached posts of kitch ener's army and have mastered the higl art of guerilla warfare in being able t
 scatter into small bands and closely hide whenever columns are sent out il
 search of them and to reunite with th' the fiery cross was sent rounr for reiv ing or slaughter. MT. Burleigh how
 man, for he says that the slim Boer de l tests risks and has more of the charac- 1 teristics of the resliin in his conduct oi operations. He admits, however, that De Wet, Louis Botha and Steyn have
 been giving Kitchener's men a lively ll,
 in pursuit of Botha at one time. Bur 1 leigh has been preaching reform in the | British Army and hammerips the Brit | ish public into demanding that the war should be conducted in war fashion. Of the changes in British methods in the l field, he says
 At last we are going to war in war fashion. A headquarters order is com ing out, it is said, for the peremptory
 cutting down of all transport and bag
 gage Buck wagons, that were bed
 rooms and saloons combined, upon
 wheels, wherein certain column leaders
 leisurely and luxuriously campaigned,
 are to become things of the past upon
 trek The chiefs will probably go or
 stay behind with the cooking stoves
 which have also to be discarded. So,
 too, with the Capecarts that carried the
 officers excellent midi day lunches, with
 the napery, crystal-ware, wines, tables,
 and chairs. Yea even the extras of comfort. the changes of raiment, the bedsteads mattresses, pillows, portable conveniences and what not; besides musical instruments, light literature, sporting guns and gear-al1, all must be left behind, for each officer shall only carry thirty pounds of baggage, and no more. So may it be. It will be hard, bitterly hard, to have to do real soldier fashion-no tents, no countless changes of boots and clothes, reduced to- at most, a waterproof and two blankets, and dosing upon the exposed veldt just as Tommy Atkins has done so of ten and long, with nought more than ordinary Army rations for meals. suppose the hosts of personal servants and orderlies, and the soldier-drivers of the mess and regimental Cape carts will now be sent back to the ranks to carry rifles.
 Long have I held that the enlisted British soldier man should be a fighter not menial, and if the later must be kept in barracks or the field he should be engaged as a servant, from among the physically unfit classes not lads having the warrior spirit From Decem- Der 1 next the new orders are thirty pounds of baggage per officer takes ef- feet. It is stern, but, I am sure, very necessary measure, the more so as the system of hunting the Boers with columns moving far from any depot base still prevails. Whirling men and by tens of thousands from one end of this vast country to another in- CUTS great waste, and has not been 0ver- successful in producing required suppression of the com nandoes. The districting of the coun- try. and opera ting from centuries but to forty miles off, would not only enable mobile columns to dispense with other than pack transports, but would lessen, by frequently relieving in he returns to depot the hardships of erkking with nought but what one stands up in It is but taking another eaf out of the nomadic Boers' book, or the commandoes each except upon very special occasions, hang about 'hosen districts. There they hide, con- i truct rude shelters, conceal their sur Jus provisions and ammunition in . oaches. Where the troops don't come co often they drive and herd their tock, and cultivate, raisng forage and nealies.'
 Every trooper in the British Army re- members the ridng master and our hard iding school, and the Imperial Ysoman- y and mounted infantry know them to heir cost and loss. The five shillings
 day of pay, given to Colonial mounted roops, attracts many curious creatures, areless, because ignorant of what is equired of those who seek preferment pon horses back, unknowing ublime equitatiop. It is better than a rst-class circus for the on-Iookers to ee the new sections being drilled. Reg lar as the clock the camp, or as much f it as is allowed to, turns out to roll nd rock till their sides and heads ache t the fun of the thing. Fun to them, ut soreness that is of the bitterness of espair and deep-seated loss to the re- 1 ruits A hard. stern riding master or I egimental sergeant major is worse nan a fiery dragon, and more terrible nan death, to the terror stricken be- f inner I have been out to see the re- . 'uits drilled for a certain well known , olonial corps. It ceases to be marvel 6 lat, after such discipline and experi- , aces cavalry and mounted troops , 'ould be hardy, brave and with sml- :, g contempt for pain and wounds. g Here is faithful rescript of what I l w and truly heard upon the veldt rid I s school this week, where 8 score of r nrromisng material for troops were 2 Aing trained And the instructor was n 1t peculiarly nasty, wordy, or ill-tem- ered, as riding masters military" go |,
 these parts. He wore his TOW of rib i, ms with soldierly dignity, and slowly c