Railways in War.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1900, Page 3

Railways in War.

We slipped oat of Gape Town into the twilight at a steady twenty .five mile an hour on our 600-mile journey north Some day you in England will realise what it means to handle Ernies and their supplies over this distance on a single three-foot sit war has been a war of shunting and side-tracking, of telegraphs agcL time-tables ; so we may hope fsiat the railway men, who have tprked like dwvils, will not be overwhen the decorations come itee. Tptecatise the line runs through 0*1 * Colony, and because Gape Cq gey is— we have the highest ftoiprity for it— loyally trying tp be " nftttral," every bridge, every cul-

vert, every point at which the line may be cut or blown up was guarded by a little detachment of armed men. These are drawn chiefly from local corps, such as fine Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles. They do not like the work ; they love still less the " loyalty " which has made the fatigue necessary. Said a dust-spotten, begrimed sergeant of the "Duke's," as No. 8, double-headed, panted up the Hex River Pass into the Karoo, " We've been here since November. I don't mind telling you we're pretty sick of it. We haven't had a look-in at the front yet. We sit her© and patrol , the line. Lovely work !" {£he setting of the picture hardly varied a hair's*breadtb. — Eltract : from article by Rudyard Kipling.

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