THE ZULU WAR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 69, 20 March 1880, Page 2

THE ZULU WAR.

BXb&SSBi'St *HE BfttTISH frROOPSi :: ■y ' ; JSew ; VYojrk, ' l frebruuy '*i.7.— if be,. [Herald prints a .cablegram giving the , ;,. substance .of,;^Bail's Run " ''.] ,. reply to Sir, Garnet W6lseley'aqbar^eß. ; / He flays [tr—^'-A,i.. iifeWeastle I blve ppen inifprmed a distinguished ; , Boldierj" who Was lately rewarded (by* his Sovßre^p^ ifor gailaniry in the war, . that, there had pot been co much ''djatf-.' sight at UtrAoht, f 'w.hen ttie'spitiiera] pf^ attacked the. no'tel! i"n . wjhieh\ nay informant lodged, anp' smaebed the windows with ; huge ; pjay- ; ing Btonea because he reifused to drink With them. He got out of bed and f crept under it to escape from their ' violence. He was rolled over by ; a atone like a rabbit. Then ha got Urn revolver, called on the landlord to Are,' and the fellows went. away. Whefa.l visited Utrecht a large store \yitb • broken windows waß shown me, which' ...had been wrecked by British solJilers. The landlord of one of the hotels hts cribed the attack on his premises aa if he had been undergoing a siegfe in idae. form. The offlcer in command reobrted , to a meaaure which was declared' illegal, but which was wholly ceceß. sary end. justifiable— the meaadre of ptosing public-hpiiaeii abd 'taverns by force, and making it penal to sell liqiioi s { at all. Now, I ask, is that gross 'ex- * ( sggeration • l nd transparent untruth ? Another officer in charge of amßrch- ', jng regiment adopted the device of or- ' dering a so J)ply of spirits to be brought but on the Wilde, so that men who co 1 desired ' might get drank on the open, beyoDd the Bight of settlere. Twb|Boidier's of another corps at Utrecht dr|ank ' until they chbked themselves to d^atlb during' 'the time; that I was there. Oae J ol ihem was btiHeia on 'the day that Sir 'Garnet Woleele^ inspected the troops. And is it gross exaggeration and trans- : parent nntruth to assert that the mees stores of Sir .Garnet's own' personal staff were et:len in his own headquarters, and that bis wines an 1 liquors. Were freely drank by men around him 'at Prtetoi-ia ? CotUplaints of perebnal -Violence,: and iriisecurity of propeirty, were made to me by one of the first merchants of South Africa. Not a single store in Hulberg waa left unbroken or uuwrecked by troops. The fobberiea covered all kinds of psrsbnal property, from chickens to church clbeks. Merchants were afraid to remain alone in their homes. On anoiher occasion an officer who was commanding Queen's troops in a country as large as France, said: •If I am to carry out ord(.r«, I shall not h&ve a man left for active duty.' ' How is that?' asked I. 'Well,' he replied, 'the colonel and half the 'men, would have to be guarding the other bilf in their tents or marching them ' ' aldng the road under arrest.' Indeed, : all the bffiaers of the army in South Africa sp6ke through my {Jen. Theirs! ' ' ! waß : the ' "Voice 'of : the 'bbmplaint I 'tittered. If rthy bnirveQtureß to aay. I : nave make false cheirgee i against' ihe. 1 Bniish fcrmy, my words are in evidence to convict Kirn of - gross Exaggeration and tfahiparent notruth." 1 So ends this redoubtable epistle. Di Bussell is accepted, whether rightly or wroDgly, aa the champion • ?6f| the Bdera in 'iheir 'struggle for independence : ;-He dfem'oed with faint praiae Sir G. Wolseley'fl adtireUs to ihe malcontentß. He argued that if some Constitution,' f Hoch 88 Sir Theophilus Shepatone, who ahneied the Transvaal, is said to 'haVe prepared/had been ptbmulgated' imineinefdiately after annexation, there Would have been no Boer agitation and no 'British. liidcbn'teWt. He chilled with r sneers even the (( cold collation" which the Boers foffereid to the British at ' three guineas ahead, and- showed that

those \7bbatteacled it were<m»inly cdn- ' tractors of l ttie' army arid -the' > Govern--1 ibent,:pl?6f6sß{dn"oi t: toeh ■'•-i»n'<t> advooaies ; 6( "the 1 i ; which '■' iVinVa i 'wire naturally disagreeahla to tiie ears of a j c'dnqu9rifcg~(-retierßl. . |