THE MARCH PAST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 202, 19 October 1900, Page 4

THE MARCH PAST.

%K who saw the " march past" o the troops in Pretoria Bays of it:—" 1 only wish the whole army in Hontl Africa could march through Londoi exuctly in its present condition—be grimed v ith dirt, red, white, and blacl with the various dast, stained witl oi l , torn and worn into boles, aavagel; bearded, gaunt, g'itn aid steeled witl hanger, hard marching, and endurance Eober from want of drink, solemnise( by continual proximity to death. I would tell London more aboat the rra mearing of war than all the parade and royal reviews ever held in Hydi Park or Aldershot. Fcr myself, tfcoagl I hbve been with the army for niai months through good and evil fortune now in iba hour of highest t a I tee these dusty and weather-won figures tramping past, atd remembe what they have tern and done anc mffared. 1 wonder more than ever at the patience, the tough endurance, anc ironic humcur of the English poor, agd almost equally I admire the versatility, the traditional courtesy, the self-re-stiaint aad h&fcied of all melodrama and dißpliy which years cf gcoi breeding with healthful food and treioicg ta*e prodccsd among the class from which our officers are drawn,"