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War in The Transvaal

| Particulars of the Struggle in

South Africa.

Burial of Wauckope.

Some of the most brilliant werk, in the way of descriptive writing done recently by war cotrespondents, is just appearing in the London papers. After tracing the terrible loss suffered by the Highland Brigade at Margersfontein, the Daily News correspondent thas wrices of the burial of General Wau- chope:

“Three hundred yards to the rear of the little township ef Medder River, just as the sun was sinking in a blaze of African splendcur on the evening of Tuesday, the 12th ef December, a long, shallow grave lay exposed in the breast of the veldt. To the westward, a broad river fringed with tree runs murmingly to the eastward ; the heights still held by the enemy scewled men- acingly ; north and south, the veldt un- dulated peacefully, a few paces to the northward of that grave fifty dead Highlanders lay dressed as they had fallen on the Geld of battle; they had

5 ah ee followed their chief to the field and 4, ‘DS HILAL | they were to follow him to the grave, asf gs > » ae BA How grim and stern those men look as GRATEFU!. @ COMFORTING they lay face upward to the sky with ~.. \inguished overywhere for | great hands élenched in the last agony D-vicacy of Plavour Superior and brows still knit with the stern lust etein q- (lly ¢ ov ? | the strife in which they had fallen. {1 and comforting to tho he plaids dear to every Highland clan “Yer vougand dyspeptic. &: were repsesented there, and as I leoked only in }-lb. ting, Icakeiled out of the distance came the sound of JAMES EPPS é& CO., Lid. | pipes, it was the general coming to

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“There, right under the eyes of the enemy, moved with slow and solemn tread all that remained of the High- land Brigade. In front of them walk- ed tne chaplain with bared head, dressed in his robes of office; then came the pipers, with their pipes, six- teen in all, and behind them with arms reversed, moved the Highlanders, dressed in all the regalia of their regi-

ments—and in the midst the dead general, borne by fcur of his comrades. Out swelled the pipes to

the strains of “The Flowers of the Forest,” now ringing proud and high, until the soldier’s head went back in haughty defiance, and eyes flasned through tears like sunlight on steel; now sinking toa moaning wail, like a woman mourning for her firstborn, until the proud heads dropped forward _till they rested on heaving chests, and tears rolled dowm the wan and scarred faces, and the choking sobs broke through the solemn rhythm of the march of death. Right up to the grave they marched, then broke away in companies, until the general in the sha'low graye with a Scottish square of armed men around him, only the dead man’s son and a small remnant of his officers stood with the chaplain and the pipers while the solemn service of the Church was spoken.

‘‘Then once again the pipes pealed “Lochaber no more” cut through the stillness like acry of pain until one could almost hear the widow [in her Highland home moaning for the soldier she would welcome back no nore. Then as if touched by the

nacié of one thought the soldiers tarn- ‘d their cear-damped eyes from the still form in the shaliow grave toward he heights where Cronje, the “Lion of Africa,” and his soldiers stcod. Then 2very cheek flushed crimson and strong jaws set like steel, and the veins m the hands that clasped the rifle handles swelled almost to bursting with he fervour of the grip and that look from those silent armed men spoke more eloquently than ever spoke the tongues of orators. For, on each frowning face the spirit of vengeance sat, and each sparkling eye asked silent- ly for blood. God help the Boers when next the Highland pibroch sounds. God rest the Boers’ souls

for neither death, nor hell, nor things above, nor things below, will hold the {Scots back fromtheir blood feud.

At the head of the grave, at the point nearest the enemy the ‘General was laid to sleep, his ‘officers grouped around him, whilst in line behind him, his soldiers were laid in a double row wrapped in their blankets. No shots were fired over the dead men, resting so peacefully, only the salute was ‘given, amd {the men marched cainpwards, as the darkness of an African night rolled over the far stretch- ing breadth of the veldt.

The same wtiter thus depicts the way in which the disaster overtook the ‘Highlanders :

‘During the night it was consid- ered expedient that the Highland bri-

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when the Highland bayonets charge, ;

gade, about 4000 strong, ander Gener al Wauchope, should get close enough to the lines of the foe to make it possi- ble to charge the heights. At mid- night, the gallant but ill fated men moved cautiously through the darkness toward the kopje, wherethe Boers were most strongly entrenched. They were led by the guide who was sup- posed to Know every inch of the coun- try out into the darkness of an African night.

‘*So onward, until three of the cleck, on the Monday. Then out of the darkness a rifle rang, sharp and clear, a herald of disaster—a _ soldier had tripped in the dark over the hid- den wires laid down by the enemy, in a second, in the twinkling of an eye, the search lights of the Boers fell broad and clearas the noonday sun on the ranks of the doomed High- landers, though it left the enemy con- cealed in the shadows of the frowning mass of hills behind them. For one brief moment, the Scots seemed para- lyzed by the suddenness of their dis- covery, for they knew that they were huddled together like sheep within fifty yards of the trenchss of the foe. Then, clear above the confusion, roll- ed the voice of the general—‘‘ Steady,

|men, steady’—and like the echo to!

the veteran, out came the Crash of

| nearly a thousand rifles not fifty paces ‘from them. The High’anders reeled before the shock, like trees before the tempest. Their best, their bravest fellin that wild hail oflead. General /Wauchope was down, riddled with | bullets, yet gasping, dying, bleeding fromevery vein, the Highland chief raised himself on his hands and knees and cheered his men forward. Men and officers fell in heaps together.

“The Black Watch charged and the Gordons and the Seaforths, with a yell that stirred British camp below, rushed onward to death or _— disaster. The accursed wires caught them round the legs until they floundered like trapped wolves, and all the time the rifles of the foe sang the song of death in their ears. Then they fell back, broken and beaten, leaving nearly 1300 dead and wounded just where the broad breast of the grassy veldt melts into the embrace of the rugged African hills, and an hour later the dawning came, of thegrearest day that Scotland has known fora generation past. Of her officers, the flower of her chivalry, the pride of her breeding, but few re- mained to tell the tale, a sad tale, true- ly, but one untinted with dishonour or smirched with disgrace, for up those heights, under similar circumstances, even a brigade of devils could scarce have hoped to pass. Ali that mortal man could do the Scots did; they tried, they failed, they fell, and there is nothing left us now but to mourn for them and avenge them.

“Tn vain all that day, Methuen tried by every rule he knewto draw the enemy ; vainly the Lancers rode_reck- lessly to induce these human rock limpets to come out and cut them off.

“Cronie knew the mettle of our men and an ironic laugh played around his iron mouth, and still he stayed within his native fastness, but death set ever at his elbow, for our gunners dropped the lyddite shells and the howling shrapnels all along his- lines until the trenches ran bloody and many of his guns were silenced

“When,at 1.30 p. m. of Tuesday, we drew off to Mooder River, to recuper- ate, we left nearly. three thousand dead and wounded of grim old Cronje’s men as a token that the lion of Eng- land had bared his teeth in earnest,”

A squadron of Lancers in one of the | patrols near Ladysmith took with them one day a Lancer of straw. This | figure was left near a Boer position | and viewed from a distance looked a

| veritable cavalryman. The figure was

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left on a rock, and it was not long be— fore the Boers were having shots at the | soldier who so daringly exposed him-— seli. Mauser bullet had no offect, and it is alleged that, getting exasperated, they turned one of their big guns on the dummy. The truth was discovered only after a vast quantity of ammuni- tion had been wasted. The Liverpoals one day set up a row of effigies, and the Boers were driven crazy by the in- difterence these men showed to their fire. Then there was the bogus artillery some of our people constructed one night on the town lands in front of Umbuiwane. There were figures of men and something which looked like 15-pounders. The Boers blazed away at this battery and “knocked particulars ——out of it,” as an artillery man with many delighted grins said, only to find out that they were being feoled.

One of the most surprising adven- tures of the war was that of Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson, at Ladysmiti, who went upina baloon to make a re connaissance, and a shrapnel shell went clear through the gas bag and exploded some distance beyond. The baloon gently sank, and when it went up again a black patch denoted the spot where the shell had pierced it.

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