INTO TH ENEMY'S LINES.
Private Cranston, of the Scots • Guards, who is on General French's staff, writes to his father from Eendsburg of a ride into the enemy's lines and the capture of one of their number, "He^and his companions were seen by the Boers and chased. His companion roSe with the prisoner, but Cranston's stirrisp leather broke, and he fell backward. Just as he mounted the Boers were upon him. "I had no time," he proceeds, "to draw my sword, so lay about me with the butt end of my carbine. I drove two of their skulls down over their chins, as the saying is. I cut my way through them. They are the bigg< st cowards in the world at close quarters. When I got clear of them they dismounted and commenced firing. My horse was shot, and he 1 dropped, but I managed to get him v back to our outposts, when he dropped for good, being riddled with bullets, j 1 Vas very lucky myself, getting only j one^hot in the leg. General French said fc£ was very pleased with me for j what M^d» as the prisoner gaye yalu- ' •u^^^^^aation. Our men said it ■^^^^^BKest thing they had heard
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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204INTO TH ENEMY'S LINES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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