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Interesting Particulars of the Struggie Betwecn Great Britain and the Boers.

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just time to criticise; perhaps critics enemy’s movements, but the should wait unti! the thing is over, but artillery can only be explained on it is atermbiy serious matter—the lives supposition that the Transy )

been preparing for a long time do battle with the Paramount The Transvaal has spent millions gnaw ‘millions of the Uitlanders’ m converting the Republics intg i huge arsenal, with sufficient arm } and munitions of war to suppl DAY. | Dutch Afrikander trom the Cape to ithe Zambesi. And yet people

of British soidiers are the stakes in the game ; and, when th: game is over if it be won—as it will be won—-criticism wiil tall suli-born Memory is short in the hour of triumph

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scarcely speak above a whisper.

THE ANGLO-SAXON.

, We are told that in olden days, while

, the blood of a thousand Thanes

Was reddening Senlac laes at the touch of the Norman steel, At one and the selfsame time the shout

of the Berserk Danes

Rang out on our Eastern shore, with

the grate of the Viking’s keel.

Norman, Saxon, and Dane — sword against sword the while

rhey sowed with their blended blood the germ of an endless seed,

That hatched in the winds, and rains, and fogs of a Northern isle

Burst forth in the new-born bud of the Anglo-Saxon breed.

Centuries long have passed, and the seedling plant has grown, And the shoots ofthe parent stem,

o’erspreading their island space,

Are gratified in distant soils, but the grafted shoots have shown

That their sap is the same old sap of the Anglo-Saxon race.

And whether it’s Uncle Sam or whether its “Kangargoo,”

“Wallaby,” “Maple,” or ‘“Oak,” in field or forest or flood.

The men that tackle a job are che men that’ll see it through,

And the lever that works the crank is the Anglo-Saxon blood.

We may bungle at times, and blunder, we may fail at the first essay,

We may lack the finesse and cunning that subtler nations need,

But, Ged be thanked, we’s Grit, its grit that’ll win the day

When the wolves of war are the Anglo-Saxon breed.

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loosed at

And if ever in evil case, with wounded back at the wall,

Oid England faces her focs;in the hour that pipes her need From the shoots of the parent stem

will echo the answering call Of the bugle that sounds the “charge’ of the Anglo-Saxon breed !

Canada, Australasia, we stock of a

Northern land Are stiff, and reserved, and proud, and the words, that we speak are few ; But we look you straight in the face, and we grip your outstretched hand; And God deal so with us, as we deal, in your need, with you! —Lord Ernest Hamilton in Mall Magazine.

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} SIEGE OF KIMBERLEY.

Kimberley has been the maintenance of flash light communication between the garrison and the relieving force under General Lord Methuen. Every night messages have been exchanged between the two forces, Kimberley flashing its message by a big electric search light from the top of one of the huge mining derricks, and the relieving army speaking from a powerful search- light mounted on top of an armoured train. The Boers have often tried to confuse the inter-communication by flashing lights of their own at the same time, but this did not materially inter- fere with the British.

Kimberley in the centre of the diamond trade in South Africa and the home of Cecil Rhodes. On the day the war broke out Rhodes reached that place from Cape Town by railway, and had a narrow escape from capture by the Boers, who were congregated about the various stations along the line and the Orange River Railway.

On reaching Kimberley, Mr. Rhodes with characteristic energy, threw himself into the work of making good the defences of that place. All the available fighting men from the district

surrounding Kimberley were picked | out from the immense numbers of re- fugees that came pouring into the

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One af the features of the siege of

, place, and these together with the em- }

ployees of the diamond mines, who form almost entirely the population of the place, were banded together in an irregular force to serve as auxilaries to the regular troops under Col Kekewich

this district.

Altogether for defensive purposes therewas availablein Kimberley a force of between four and five thousand men. The artillery which they had at their disposal was defective, but Rhodes 1 the last days of the siege sought to im- prove his position in this respect by manufacturing cannon. It is a tribute in the energy ofthe man when the statement can be made that with the material at his disposal he was able to turn out weapons which were effsctive against the Boers.

Kimberley was put in a splendid de- fensive position by the erection of earthquakes and from the opening of the war on October 11th until last night the brave British forces there have been able to make good their position against an overwhelming force of Boers supplied with an effective artillery.

Almost the first fighting of the war took place between Kimberley and Mafeking, which lies to the north of that place, on the line of the Buluwayo Railway, when fifteen British soldiers were killed on a train which was blown up by dynamite on October 13.

The history of the siege at Kimberley has been the characteristic record of British pluck and stubbornness. Sorties were made from time to time, and the losses to both the Boers and to the de- fenders had been in a ratio which favors the British, just as the losses of the British forces attacking the Boers has been in a ratio favouring the latter.

The last telegram from Kimberley was dated February 13th. It was to the effect that that place had been bombarded throughout February 8th, but that the situation otherwise was unchanged The defenders of Kim- berley are supposed to have had plenty of prcvisions in stock. and no suffering was entailed in respect to a shortage of supplies.

Kimberley, 647 miles from Cape Town and about 230 south of Mafeking on the railway, is well known as the centre of the diamond industry, pos- sessing the great mines known as Kim berley and De Beers, and being practi- cally the conrtroiling centre of the diamond industry of the whole world. At the last census its * population was about 29,000, of whom rather less than one-half were whites. Ithas a number of hotels, as well as a hospital and a sanatorium, a public library containing one of the best collections of books in South Africa, a club, a Masonic temple. a park with cricket and football fields Anglican, Wesleyan, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches; trams, cabs and a couple of daily newspapers—the Daily Independent and the Liamond Fields Adviser.

A short distance away is Beacons- field, practically a suburb, with a pop- ulation of 10,000 half, whites, around the mines of Du Toit’s Pan and Bult- fontein. At Kimberley the diamond mines and De Beers offices offered an irresistible temptation to the Boers. Its defenders were the North Lan- casbires, volunteers, and engineers— about 2,500 in all, with guns and maxims, and the debris heaps and trenches connected with the mincs afford fortifications ready made.

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A lady missionary was passing through one of the lowest slum dis- tricts in Liverpool the other day when she came upona trio of ragged little

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urchinsexcitedly discussing the present war. “I tell yer they've sent Kitchen- er,” the youngest was insisting lustily. “Who is Kichener” ? asked the lady, “Kitchener : don’t yer know Kitchen- er’? (in withering contempt). Why he’s the champion of the world, he is ; and they’ve sent ’im to lick the Boers. They should ’a sent ’im long ago. “But what do you know about Kitchener ?” “What do I know? They should ’a sent ’im at the Boers fust.” “I think they should send you,” observed the lady. “What would you do to them if they did?” “Do? I’dgiv’’em this,” and he squared his dirty fists in true British fashion and began to pound away at an imaginary fve.

CANADIAN REPUTATION.

Sidney Vicary, of the first contin- gent, writes to his friends at the Sault that the Boers have heard about the Canadians. He says: ‘The surgeon- major of the Remington Scouts told our captain that during an armistic granted to bury both Boer and British dead and remove the wounded, the Boer commander warited to know where and how soon they would have to meet us. He said that they heard we were 1,000 of the best shots inthe world, and that the forces under him were afraid to meet us. So, if we ever have a chance to get at him, we may gain an easy victory and add fame to our already illustrious name. The first meeting of the Canadians with the Boers was nota nice experience for the latter, for they were captured bag and baggage, and forty-five of them are now on trial at Cape Town.”

THE INDEPENDENTS VIEW.

The Independent of New York one of the great journals of the United States, says:

“Boor independence may be desir- able or undesirable; wethink the latter.

“That is, if modern civilization is a good thing, and if there is no morc advanced civilization on the face of the globe than that represented by the Government of Great Britain and al- lowed by her in her dependencies, then it is best for Africa that Great Britain should be sovereign there.

“It is beyond question that the British Government in South Africa represent a higher and more pro- gressive Civilization and juster rule over the black races than does that of the Boers.

“The independence of the Transvaal means theannexition, already partly proclaimed, of all South Africa.

‘It means Dutch for English, and Dutch of two centuries ago.

“It puts an end to the advance of British civilization northward.

“For this reason, for the honour of the British Government, for the wel- fare of the contingent, for the pro- gress of civilization, Great Britain must maintain its right of control.

“Tt cannot abdicate and give up all South Africa—for that is what it means —to the Boer.”

CRITICISM.

Neither the physique, the manliness nor the courage of the average British officer is open to question ; there is no finer soldier on earth, as far as_ these things go; andto raise any question about these qualities is to weaken criticism where in reality criticism might be useful. And criticism is in order. The British officer, with all his fine personal qualities and high character, has been making a bad muddle of it in South Africa. Perhaps it is not the

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Boers, with two guns holding a kopje commanding the valley leading to the drift. and the Boers disappeared during the night. Thirteen men reported missing from Hannay’s torce, are prisoners. They were captured treacherot ing the fight. They were informed

between the British officers command ing t dant of the B-er ambulance that half a company of the British should be permitted to fetch water from a neigh- boring farm house. The ambulance

ot conceaiment and cut off the water party. The thirteen prisoner included an Officers.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

It is pointed out by a Boston corres- pondent that the men in charge of the fund now being raised in Massachusetts for the relief of British — soliders’ families are meeting with much en- couragement. The money collected by the British South Africa Patriotic Fund Association now amounts to abeut $8,000. This does not include large sums which have been subscrib- ed independent of this organization. An incident in connection with the collection of the fund was the con-— tribution of $62 by the British-born employes of the Assabet woollen mills- of Maynard. ‘These mills failed about one year ago, owing their operatives

$125,000, which they held on deposit

for them on the savings bank principle, and one-third of the amount was lost. This, however, did not prevent the Britishers at Maynard from expressing their sympathy with the old country in a subsiantial manner, although had itnot been for the financial troubles their contributions would have been larger. Worcester has started a fund for the families of British soldiers, and the first day the movement was in augurated $3,288 was pledged.

The British troops, says the Gape Argus, have to face men and guns at almost every point along a line of fron- tier beside which the Franco-~German frontier seems insignificant. An army of 20,000 Boers and auxiliaries is at one end ; another army of 20,000 at an- other ; and considerable bodies of men are gathered at varieus puints between, ali supplied with the latest inventions in the way of artillery. Boers and guns seem to spring uplike magic in the remote veldt. The amazing mobility of an army of rough riders and mount- ed infantry explains the rapidity of the

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