War Notes.

Manawatu Herald, 10 April 1900, Page 2

War Notes.

A committee of Danish farmers has given the Princess of Wales 12,000 boxes of batter for the British soldiers in South Africa. The Bojtfs on receiving Colonel Baden-Powell's remonstrances against their shelling the hospital, immediately fired again twice at the same building. The planters and merchants of Ceylon are presenting upwards of 80,0001 bof tea to be delivered free to the troops in South Africa. A movement is on foot among the leading Hindus at Calcutta with a view to hold a great pujah in the sacred temple at Ealighat to pray for the success of the British arms in Africa. At Calcutta the Mnir Mills give the Lumsden's horse, being equipped there, a number of tents, the Cawnpore woollen mills give serge cloth, sooka, putties, and flannel, and the Egerton mills, jerseys. Messrs Kenken & Co. make the officers' uniforms free of charge, and Messrs Barman & Co. make one suit of clothes for each man. The total sum co looted in India in connection with the Transvaal war, including subscriptions for the equipment of volunteers, reached £80,000 on the 23rd January. Captain Mahan, the well-known author of works on sea power has written to the American papers on the attitude of Americans towards Great Britain in connection with the war in South Africa. He oouoludes

by declaring that "not only is the cause of England just, bat to have failed to uphold it would have boon to fail in national honour." The Allahabad Pioneer says : On Christmas Day the native officers of * the Brd Bengal Cavalry at Mian Mir came to the commanding officer in tt| body, and said the whole regiment wished to subscribe a- day's pay to the Lord Mayor's Fond for the widows and orphans of their brothers r in arms killed in the Transvaal war. The regiment is composed of Sikhs, lats, Mussulman Bajputs and Hindu* stani Mahomedans. A cheque lot Bs. 1200 will be forwarded to the fund. In a letter written by an officer of the Gordon Highlanders after the battle of Magersfontein, it was said " It is extraordinary what a patient.^ fellow ' Tommy A tkins ' is. Wounds, &c, all come as a matter of course to him ; no complaining or fuss. They really are heroes. They go under the hottest fire and laugh and chat with the bullets humming overhead, and volunteer for every dangerous or disagreeable job without ever thiixfc^ ing of themselves. Fine fellowa, one can't help loving them. Th4sv stretcher-bearers (usually bandsmen) at Magersfontein were walking slowly about under fire looking for wounded* When they had picked up a man they walked slowly out of range ; there was no hurry, for fear of jolting him." On the 25th January a number of wounded were received from the war at Netley Hospital. There, were two remarkable oases. One was that of Lieutenant Giltatt, who was wounded at Elandslaagte, being struck by no fewer than 15 bullets.- There are < still three bullets in his leg, and he can only walk with difficulty. The second was that of Corporal Anderson, of the Royal Highlanders, who bad .been at the Modder river, and was made deaf and dumb by the ex« plosion of shells around him. On the voyage, however, he regained hi*< speech and hearing. . . ||<r Tne following«exfemot is from || letter written by a British soldier at Arundel. " The English farmers oil over the country treat the scouts and . patrols splendidly. The sarafayjjgg often out for three or four davSjflSl depend on the farms for their lood. One English farmer fed about 80 horses_with some of the best fodder in the" country. He gave all the men tea, &o , and the officers a good square meal. He also exchanged a very good horse for a sick one then would not take a penny foAt.