The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

inE considexAble psrtur6ed over tls' ops7atIon1 af the new army scheme n its ro1afions to volunteers. Under Mr. Haldane's schene scvera rcfszntser battaiious will Be absorbcd and. as many of volunteer officers fr the country regiments in Scotland arr lies. they are concerned In . nnastei which afxects their personal diSnits
 Jealous of their lineage. they arc avnxse to their particular regiment be- ing swallowed up. and thus forcing them to come under the command of another officer. The matter has reach : cd psrticuiarly acute stare n so isI I concerned
 The war office is in a quandary, and seems bound to have to take the risk of giving mortal offense to one ok these tonchy gentlemen.
 Wssnan Gisbe-Trstser.
 soldfering in the South African War is one of the phases of a woman roruatfc career. according to the story she herself told before the Bradford magistrate.
 Lily whiterose by name. and a dark commissioned, smart-loking woman or thirfv-nfne. she was found helplessiy drunk. and tore up the rugs given 70 her when taken to the cells
 In the police court she said she haa travelled practically all over the world being d circus rider. now out of em- sploymenf. She declared she was the daughter of q soldier and widow of an officer who died in 1901. She had six children who were with her motner in Austria, and she had been through the South African War.
 interviewed afterwards, Mrs. White rose said her mother was an Austrian lady of rank and her father an ot- ficer She was born in India Tn 1893, and in her thirteenth year accompanied her parents and the regiment to this country. their headquarters being Man chester.
 When about fifteen she went abroad with an aunt, but having rowing dls- spogition she ran away and joined Buf- falo Bill in Massachusetts. Under Colonel Cody she became a crack shot and a fearless rider. and she beasfed that she could throw lariat with any body. She left the company in 1SSs and went to Austria, and there married an officer.
 From that time she traveied good deal with her husband and picked three or four languages up. When the south African War broke out she and her husband were residing in Bayswater. and they were not on very good terms. When he left for Capetown. not long after, Mrs. Whiterose declared she Fol- lowed him, and obtaining certain private information sold 1t to the Boers Then she was engaged by De Wet as dispatch runner. and thus assisted the side fighting against her husband and his country.
 She was quite enthusiastic with re- gard to her shooting. and proudly de- ciared that she could fire fifteen shots from Lee -Metford rifle and reload in five minutes while riding bare- back.
 Although a cosmopolitan by nature. she ultimately felt desire to trams- fer her services to the British. ana con sauuentiy deserted from the Bocrs. Donning military attire, she passed off as an ordinary trooper, and joined the British Army just before the Modder River. She declares that she fought through several engagements, and wit messed the whole of the terrible Mod der River battle,
 During the engagement she said that she accomplished daring equestrienne feat, carrying 8 wounded man on her horse part of the way across the swoIl- en river.
 Later on her sex was discovered, and she took up nursing duties in the nation camp at JohannesbMrg While she Yzs attending a woman whose mind was unhfnged. and whilst her back wss tsrned, the invalid felled her with che butt end of a rifle. causing a wound which necessitated twelve stitches.
 Proceeding, she said: T saw tho nlurderous intent in the woman's eyes and realizing that 1t was my life or hers. pulled out by revolver and shot her deadr' She added that the common belief in the camp was that she had been shot by Boers. but the nurses knew different.
 She was present when Lord Roberts entered Pretoria, and after an attack of enteric fever came home in the Wentworth Castle. She was 70 i'll on landing that she spent six months in a London hospital, and having no means rejoined Buffalo Bills show at Olympia, where she obtained salary of e100 week.
 Lily Wlifterose speaks several Ian guages and is now picking up a pre- carious living by singing French ana English songs at public houses.
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