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When war was declared on the 11th ‘ot October and the Boers of the ' Orange Free State threw in their lot ‘with these of the Transvaal, weeks pas- sed before any advance was made from Cape Town upthe Vape Government railway along the Free State western borders towards Kimberley. On the 23rd of Nevember, General Lord Methuen met the Boer force at Bel- mont and drove them back from a strong positiow in the kopjes back of the railway station. The next stand taken by the enemy was at Gras Pan, eleven miles further up the line of rail- way. Here again the Boers were driven from strong entrenchments near the railway station. The third stand made was at Modder River, where the enemy was again driven across the river to the Margersfontein kopjes, four or five miles from the scene of battle. Before retiring, however, the enemy destroyed two spaces of the high railway bridge over the river, and a long delay took place while the Royal | Engineers constrncted a wooden | bridge to enable the British force to | proceed with its transport by rail. When the new bridge was completed
THE BRITISH FORCE MOVED
|into Modder River station, and the troops encamped upon the open veldt about the station. This distance from the Modder River to Modder river station is about a mile and a half or two miles, the country from the River north-east pas tthe station is an open veldt, The distaece from Modder River station to the position occupied by the British forces is about three and ahalf miles. For half the distance the veldt is level with slight undulations; then there is a gradual rise which ends in a low ridge ata small stone section house onthe line of railway. On the other side of this ridge there is a gra- dual undulating slope towards the Magersfontein kopjes, which lie about five thousand yards from the top of the ridge at the section house, and extend from tne Modder River on the right for miles across the country on the left The railway line runs north-east from the section house through a pass be- tween the kopjes. On the right of the railway line are two or three small coni- cal shaped kopjes connected by a low ridge of rough ground. Beyond these small kopjes to the left is a large kopje fully five hundred feet high, and shaped like a huge oval. From the left ex- tremity of this large kopje almost to the banks of the Modder River there ex- tends a low stony ridge. On the left of the railway line there is a short stony ridge extending to the left about half a mile where it rises into a huge kopje about three hundred feet high, and shaped like a boar’s back. Further to the left the line of kopjes extends as far as the eye can reach to the north- west. EHariv Sunday morning
THE ARTILLERY MOVED OUT
of camp at Modder River station and the big guns escorted by regiments of infantry moved up the slowing ground to the ridge at the section house All morning was spent in getting the guns in position on the incline looking to- wards the kopjes, where it was en- trenched. Immediately to the right of the railway track, about four thousand yards from the foot of the kopje:, the big naval gun was placed. A short distance“to the right, and about two thousand yards from ; the kopjes were the Maxim guns brigaded. Further to the right were the Royal Horse Artil-— lery, and beyond them the howitzer lyddite guns, and on the right flank were the field batteries. It was about four o’clock on Sunday afternoon when the big guns were all in position, and the hombardment began. The enemy did not reply, and until darkness set in ‘ the British artillery kept up
A CONTINUOUS CANNONADE,
landing shell after shell on the top of the kopje where the Boers’ force was supposed to be. A number of the stone sconces on the top and face of the kopje were shelled and badly dam- aged. storm clouds, which about midnight developed a heavy rain and wind storm. In the meantime, available force of some fifteen thousand
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the top of the ridge extending to the rigat and left of the section-house On the extreme right of the British position were the Yorkshire Light Infantry, the Ninth and Twelfth Lan- cers, and a regiment of mounted infantry. On the left of this force was the Highland Brigade,composed of the Second Battalion of the Gordons, the First Battalion of the Argyle and Sutherlands, the Second Battalion of the Black Watch and the Second Battalion of the Seaforths. On the
| British position were a couple of regi-
ments of the Guards and the North- nmberland Fusiliers, with the Scots Guards, and reserves behind the High- land Brigade and two regiments of the Guards as reserves behind the firing line on the left. The firing line extend- ed from near the banks of the Modder River on the right, about five miles to the east parallel with the kopjes in front. It was shortly after one o’clock when the advance was began in a pouring rain storm, the _ night as black as pitch. The mounted troops on the extreme right advanced to within five hundred yards of the en- emy’s position, well on their left flank, and took possession ofa ford across the Modder river, which was held by a force of Boers, entrenched on the further bank. THE BOER FORCE RETREAT- j ED as the cavalry charged them, made a detour, and crossing the river behind the British force got in between them and the base of operations. From this position they were quickly driven across the river again and retired to— wards Jacobsdal. The Highland Brigade advanced towards the low stony ridge on the left of the enemy’s position in quarter column. They had advanced to within a hundred yards of the foot of the ridge when asheet of flame burst forth from trenches ex- tending along the foot of the low ridge and around the foot of the large kopje to a point where the foot of the kopje was projected by a smallj conical kop- je which stood directly in front of the large one. The first burst of the en- emy’s fire from the hidden trenches at the foot of the low ridge and around the left end of the large kopje com- pletely staggered the Highland Bri- gade. The intense darkness and rain increased the confusion. While tryirg to rally his brigade GENERAL WAUCHOPE KILLED. Under the awful and deadly fire from the trenches a portion of the ad- vance column wavered. Two com- panies of the Black Watch clambered over the wall surrounding a Boer corral at the extreme left of the line of trenches on the low ridge and backing
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Suffered with that Dread Malady for Fifteen Years—Treated by Five Different Doctors—Literally Rescued trom Death by Bodd'’s Kidney Pills.
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MippLeTON, P. E. I., Jai. 22.—Mr. M. B. Connick, the well-known blacksmith of this place, known all over the Island as the man Dodd’s Kidney Pills saved from death as by a miracle, has often been inferviewed re- garding his case and is ever ready to supply the facts.
‘“T had been a victim to kidney trouble for fifteen years before I took Dodd’s Kidney Pills.” said Mr, Connick ina recent conver- sation.
‘‘ Did you know it was Bright’s Disease, Mr. Connick ?”
‘Not at first I didn’t but when I found it out 1 was startled, I can tell you. In those days, you know, Bright’s Disease was incur- able. I went to five different doctors, They could do me no good, Finally my wife and I went together to one who toid us right out there was no use taking my money. 1! could not be cured. I felt that it was all over.”
‘‘ How did you come to take Dodd’s Kid- ney Pills.”
** Well one day a customer and I were talking of the death ofa neighbor, and my customer said he was quite sure if he had tak- en Dodd’s Kidney Pills he would have been eured. ‘That set me thinking. For the last six years I had been forced to hire a man to do my work. Well, 1 began to take Dodd’s Kidney Pills. and before 1 had finished the third box I was at work,again. I can shoe a horse as well today as ever I couldin my life.”
** Do yuu mean to say that three boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured you of Bngut’s Disease of fifteen years’ standing.
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WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the Boers.
down the wire netting onthe top of the wall forced an entrance. ‘The fire was too hot, however, and they were forced to retire with the whole brigade in the utmost confusion, It was in this corral or outpost that the Scan- dinavian contingent of the Boers were practically annhialated or taken prison- ers. As the column retired the Boers monnted the walls of their trenches and infiladed the retiring troops with a fire from the longitudinal trenches at the foot of the low ridge and those around the end of the large kopje. Their fire in the darkness was much too high and did very little damage. It was four o’clock in the morning be- fore the
HIGHLAND BRIGADE AGAIN ADVANCED. this time in extended order. On the double they reached a point about five hundred yards from the trenches which all the time poured forth a dead- ly hail of bullets. Here they found ' cover and remained all day until dark- ness set in and the stretcher bearers were able to advance from the reserve lines to pick up the wounded, and the firing line was ordered to fall back on the guns. Itwasa small remnant of the gallant Highlanders which fell back from the awful position they had held all day. Out ofa total of some ten. hundred’ and _ sixty casualties, which occured during the day, eight
hundred were in the Highland Bri- gade. Fifty-six officers out of about one hundred bit the — dust.
Though the list of casualties was larze the number of those killed was com- paratively small, numbering in all about one hundred and fifty. This is ac~ counted tor largely by the fact that over nine-tenths of the Highlanders wounded were hit while lying under cover so long at such close proximity to the enemy’s position when they could be seen by the Boer sharpshoet- ers in the stone sconces on thejtop of the low ridge and high kopie.
Though necessarily meagre and in- complete this is the account of the battle ot Margersfontein, as given to me Dy raore than a dozen of those who were either in the firing line of the Highlanders, or behind with the big guns covering their advance. The generally believed theory as to the mis- take which was made in advancing the brigadz so close to the enemy’s trenches in quarter column formation, is that it was thought that the enemy was fortified on the large kopje. The existence of the trenches at the foot of the low kopie on the left of the Boer position was not known, and it was in- tended that the Highland Brigade should move forward over the low ridge and thus outflank the Boers on the main kopje. Whether this is the case or not, two things are evident, first, that the strength of the enemy’s position was not fully know, and sec— ond, that the only excuse for advancing the Highland Brigade in the close for- mation of quarter column was that it was intended to use the force to out- flank the enemy’s position in the main kopje.
The Times has just publisheda pertinent letter from Mr. Ernest Glan- ville on the subject of cavalry scouts in South Africa. He says: “In the Zulu campaign—the country much re- sembling that about Ladysmith—I had the opportunity of going on patrol with the five types of cavalry scouts— (1) The Edendale Basutos officered by Natalians ; (2) Boers; (3) Colonials officered by Cape frontiermen, re- sembling Brabant’s Horse with Gener- al Gatacre, only employed recently at Dordrecht ; (4) Regular cavalry; and (5) Mounted ; infantry. The Basutos were undoubtedly the finest scouts. Their eyesight is keener, their hearing more acute than that of the white men, and generations of training have devel- oped faculties of observation which enable them, as if by instinct, to nose out an enemy or to take the best posi- tion. Inthe present war the most difficult scouting has been done by Kaffirs. The Boer’s craft asa scout approaches that of the Kaffir, but he is superior at planning and has none of the native’s excitability.”
“‘Next in efficiency as scouts come the colonial troops. Someof them are superior to the Boers, but as a whole, their bushcraft is not so complete. If the pick of them could be gathered to-
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‘fighter—and it must be remembered that Cape colonists have been through
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a - a ee A a en a a se an several campaigns —they would furnish | what we fel a eau t like wh ideal scouts, as they are wary, cool, | began to fire, and oa ie oon Tom and skilled marksmen. The regular , not in position then Buns were
position then...... We as | Operating, amputating, all Ty sane s night, and soldiers were dying a around us, I alone washed twe . men. Some were put under X-rays for r nurses,
the bullets. I with many othe had mang
cavalry were never at home on the veldt, and their big horses grew gaunt under “brackish” water, hard grass, and mealies. The troops advanced on patrol with scouts drawn dangerously in, When they halted they posted videttes near at hand on conspicuous heights ; they did not free bits or loosen girths, and they could not select the best grounp for advance. It is asking too much to call on cavalry so handi- capped to scout in a country cut up by dongas and rock-strewn ravines, and atthe mercy of a handful of skilled game-hunters moving freely on the ridges. As well might we ask a town- reared lessee of a deer forest to pit him- selt as a stalker against the trained gillie.
including the Netley sisters, narrow escapes,”
The British in Ladysmith have-starpe ed a newspaper, the prospectus of — which announced : “What you want ig a besieged town is news that you caq — absolutely rely on as false.” A sma ‘ corner of the paper was reserved True News, if any should unavyoi creep in. Some of the correspondents — have been reading the Ladysmith
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A letter from a trained nurse who went from Ladysmith to Durban with the wounded brings out vividly the truth that war is not stage play. Here are some extracts :—‘‘During Monday the enemy kept shelling the town, and a shell fell right at nurse M ’s and my feet. On Wednesday the twenty- four hours’ truce was over, which was granted hy General White to the enemy to bury their dead and attend to the wounded. We were all up and ready , for the Boers to shell the town, and no , one who was not there can ever imagine ©
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