RED TAPE.
! Lieutenant Edwards, who had charge of the New South Wales Ambulance Corps—the corps complimented by the Brigadier as the first to cross the Modder River—writes to his mocher at N.«. VV. :-'• I am very worn^iObjau^our reverse. The army is a mass of rea^frapfi and theory, and I i venture to gay that were our colonial affairs left to them and not to colonial men, they would soon tell a tale. 1 went out with an officer thirty odd miles scouting, He did not know enough practical soldiering to t>ave his horse, and his poor beast came back to camp nearly dead, and useless, and I who went yard for yard with him, could ] not hold my mare for the last five miles, Plow can such men fight the Boers, who live in the saddle? The waste and red tape are killing us." The lieutenant adds that the scouts accomplished their dangerous work well, but that their reports were ignored,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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161RED TAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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