BOER CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 1

BOER CARE OF THE WOUND ED .

The specwl cm wuondent of (he Bri&t:" h ibA c,->! Joniiirl at G poton'n TM-ues:— All Itie mnv cri officers concur m ihc-Oj mon ibak, as a role, the Eoec does nofc do nearly so well under equal condition n« tbe To).ii»y. He kiemU tbe pain of n v, ( . I( < bfav&ly cjough but directly he iinds hin^e'f faco to face with a Wgiby i)!i>, be loses heart, mskf.b up hU n"n,{ i 0i 0 $, Qf aud hi,3 pre ■ ) na-'T Cd hor. is often jrslipea. JN-.tMuy can orc&rd the kiiKlue&s which the pn,xouers are lien tod. Every e&nfc isj mada as far as possible to pattern uafloc medical men who ni)dorstand thee language. They tt t e , o f course, nutsed^exactly. us ilio soldier, rik! get many littJo indrtlgewcG*. /com which, for reasons of discipline, ih* Wer would bo dobtu-red. The belie.: class qm to apyraoiate this. I v, oa talking the' other day io a welleducated prisoner, a pure Traut,vaaler, who told me that he fully expected the Lndeofc treaiinont rud that he had been g!j>/J when bo became sick that he fell luto the heads of the English, na the arrnnoementa on his own side tue shookuigly bad. He told me th^fc unless a mau were under the oare of one of tbe fovoi"n ambulances fchere was very )im Q chaace of recovering from anything bad. The acfcunl Boer incdiut arrangeme.ita worked fa!- ■ .>-( it f fche beginning of thewri, U'i \l } y had utterly broken dov, There was no system at ..,<, only a deficiency of doc-i^ h, >.< those doctors ?ppoaied '* jc*s& iv> wander about ?•? they LLcd," no (hofe sometinies thcte were iv,o uv three whera they weie nofc aud none where they were. Then, a^nin, he admiUed to me ibafc ifc was noi: at all an uncommon thing for the doctors to take up a rifle and fight. He mentioned this, no'u apparently \?ifch fche least idea of its impropriety from a Bod Oioss point of view, bui as a grievance on account of fcise doctor hviiig wan,te;l to do his own work. And ai'Loi^h this is noli stoutly a niDdicai ranlter, another reuark a-i i,i. do intorosting. lie coiJifUn,. a J Ljt J sr]y olbeiug kept in cptn .j on tha ground th&i th G .^-j- . v ' o who our ov.ii srSjects c ul b. i '. cci fir heing, were a I 'owed to e otic to ,-jtir fanno, wiuht ho an.- ou^is v. bo we. -a only dom^ aersice io tJi&uown countcy were kopL in

At. Jiafeking one of fche Cape boys in (he gairisou's most advauced position, close up to tbe enemy, deem ing \m loophole too laige, made iiiUio^lf anoiher by surrounding with uutb and sandbags a pick \vjtl,o.nt a handle, using tlio hole in tile head to fioe Hi rough. No sooner bad tbe enemy spotted iLe contrivance l]owe^er, ilitux i,hay at once opened fiie. One shoi struck the pick a second buried itself alongside and a ILtird came tliiougli the improvised loopliole, tbns proviug tiie correctness "of the boy's wtimute.