THE BOER WAR IN 1981,
Events in the Tmnsvaal are, of course, drawing the attention of the nations of the world, thitherward at present, even more than the war of 1881 did. There is very little we can call to mind which will reflect credit upon our doings during that war, particularly when we remember the collapse, and flight of our soldiers from Majuba Hill, especially at a time when they held the best position and when, the Boers were preparing to move off; but, bad as the case was, it will not be amiss. Just now, perhaps, to recall what happened during that campaign.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1899.
were pushed on to Colley's camp at Mount Prospect a d
JUST ANOTHER QUE."
* DRINKERS.
A case was reported the other day of a New York woman who for over thirty years had been in the habit of drinking five quarts of strong black tea daily, and who as a con- sequence became almost blind.
conceived the idea of turning the Boer position
Sir Pomeroy Colley had in the meanwhile A PHYSICIAN'S WARNING, TO EXCESSIVE TEA at the Nek by occupying Majuba, a flat-top- ped hill to the left of the Hoer position. He had received, as has been seen, some reinforce ments; in forty-eight hours he would have had several thousands. another thousand men and within a week He elected to carry out bis idea without waiting for them.
The motive ascribed for this course of action was the fear that Sir Evelyn Wend would arrive on would be nutributed to that officer, who, as is. the scene and that any subsequent success well knows, was held in high estimation, not only by the Colonials, whom he freely con sulted at all times, but by the Boers, many of whom had served under him during the Zulu
war.
Seeing in a medical journal that the drinking of ten was fast assuming the proportions of a craze, the writer recently consulted a doctor whose speciality is nerves.
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Is it true," the physician was asked, “that people drink more tea than is good for them?"... I should think it is," was the reply. "1 have patients who assure me that the tea drinking they are compelled to undergo whilst paying afternoon calls, frequently amounting to a dozen cups in a few hours, has resulted in the contraction of a habit they are now quite unable to give up.
"In the out-patient department of the hos.
pital with which 1, am connected the tea tippler is getting to be as common as the gin- tippler. I had one under my notice a few days ago a poor woman. She trembled as if she had the ague, and declared that, although she know that it was the tea that had wrecked her nerves, she could no more give up the habit than the habitual drunkard could forswear alcohol.
Most of the troops, including all the cavalry and most of the artillery, had been withdrawn from South Africa after the Zulu war. When The result of his venture is now history, the garrisons in the Transvaal were hemmed After a wearying night march, entailing a climb in, the only troops at General Colley's disposal of some thousands of feet, he occupied the were those be could collect in Natal. By the summit of Majuba early on the morning of end of January he had. gathered about 1,200 the 27th February, Deducting stragglers and men at Newcastle, between Durban and the a company left about half a mile down the Transvaal frontier This force was described hillside, the force numbered betweed 350 and as the "Relief Colemn." It was quite incom 400 men. It was principally composed of men petent to reduce the Boer rebels to submission, of the 58th, the companies of the 92nd who and was intended simply to relieve the be- had reached Mount Prospect, the Naval Brigade leagured garrisons, for which purpose it was and some drafts of the 21st. The force was a accompanied by a long train of waggons Inden very mixed one, to which fact the subsequent with provisions. General Colley was by no means over confident of success, but there was attributed. The summit of the hill is like the disaster is frequently and perhaps rightly
The numbers of anemic and dyspeptic women and white, puny-faced children is alarm- no doubt in the minds of the officers and men, majority of South African mountains, flat-ingly on the increase. I never ask what is the and the long column wanded its way towards topped. The diameter of the top was about Lang's Nek as cheerfully as the rainy weather 300 yards, and owing to the depression in the and the trouble attending movements hamper-centre, the position was sheltered, except when ed by one hundred and fifty waggons allowed.. the men lining the edge showed against the
The Boers were then encamped on Lang's sky line. Nek, a position they had seized some weeks before. The main road from Newcastle into the Transvaal crossess the Drakensberg range the Transvaal border within Natal. Their force was composed of about 2,500 men a number which later an was increased to about
tatter with them. Why do you drink so much tea ?' is my first question. "A cup of tea livens me up so,' is the general reply."
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of mountains, some six or seven miles from sidering it untenable. They were actually Above all, tea should not be taken on an empty above Port, on SATURDAY, the 21st instants Captain Polford, will be despatched
4,000 men,
General Colley reached Mount Prospect, about three miles from Lang's Nek on January 26, 1881, He marched without opposition, in spite of the fact that he had to pass the Ingogo, where opposition might have been expected. A camp was formed at Mount Prospect, but was not entrenched or even properly langered, because, no doubt, nobody anticipated atack. Owing to rain and fog, the force lay inactive on the 27th. On the 28th, leaving a few men, principally drafts- to protect the camp, the General moved out and took up a position on level open ground to the right of the main road leading to the Nek. After the position had been shelled by the four guns, the direct attack was made by the 58th (now the 2nd Northamptons), about goo strong, and the Mounted Company: The attack was repulsed with considerable luss. The gallantry of the troops could not be questioned. The 58th suffered severely, but retired in good order and in a manner that elicited commendation from the General in his despatch. The force was then reformed on the plateau near the guns and for some hours awaited attack, but as the Boers showed no disposition to come down from the height it was eventually with drawn to the camp, which by that time had been langered.
When the Boers discovered that the hill was in the possession of the British, they prepared to evacuate their position on Lang's Nek, con unspanned, preparing to move off when one of their commandants, named Shmidt, renowned amongst them for his daring, collected a sinal number of the most venturesome and advanced to the attack. The number of the attacking party did not at first exceed eighty. These were subsequently reinforced by others and by their marksmanship at long ranges compelled Colley's men who were lining the summit of Majuba to lie very close. The attacking party had good cover all the way up the slope from their camp on the Nek and their climb was as nothing compared to what the British had un dertaken. The advance was slow and till the afternoon the British had suffered but slight loss.
seasoned
men
fresh
The end, however, came with surprising rapidity. No clear explanation has ever been given of what occurred. A panic suddenly seized the party on the hill and they fled helter- skelter, their losses being almost altogether incurred in their flight. It was said at the time that the men's ammunition had run out but this was disproved, for the Boers found fair supplies of ammunition on the hill. One fact worth noting and one that amazed the Boers was that a number of the rifles found on the bill had their sights up for long range firing which, no doubt, accounts for the small loss the Boers suffered, one man killed and four wounded being undoubtedly what it cost them to dislodge from an apparently impregnable position some 350 British troops, including a number of There can be little doubt but that the vast majority of the officers considered that the Many accounts have been given of the from Afghanistan. attack would be a walk-over. Nearly all the fight. That of one of the Naval Brigade the staff men in the fighting line were shot was the briefest and possibly as accurate down, Colonel Deane, commanding the force, as the majority. All he knew, he said, Major Poole, R.A., Lieut Elwes, of the Guards, was that it took him eight hours to get A. D. C., to the General, and other officers.
to the top of the bill and three jumps Colonel Deane led the attack in person and
to get to the bottom. The company left some got close to the Boers entrenchment when he distance below the top of the hill had been Pas shot. The Boers actually engaged were reinforced from Mount Prospect and eventually not numerous, nor were they strongly enfought its way back to camp. trenchad. It was merely a matter of shooting. The engagement from the Boer point of view was a simple mathematical problem. It would tako the 58th so many minutes to ascend the slope. If would take so many minutes for so many shots. The 58th had, in fact, no chance. and General Colley recognized this too late. There was, however, no gloom in the camp that night. The feeling was that an accident had happened and that things would be put right before long. Late in the evening, part of the Mounted Force moved out of camp and marched down through Newcastle to where the main road passes over the Biggarsberg range, fifty miles from Lang's Nek and there encamped with a view of holding that position to facilitate the advance of the reinforcements then expected. A few days later came the defeats of Ingogo and Majuba HH||~~~
Cross-
TRADE FOLLOWING THE FLAG,
is so oft-quoted and so widely accepted that a The expression that trade follows the flag" contradiction of it, of an exception to it is worth nothing. In replying to two-pro-expansion US. A. minister to Siam, and by senator arguments by the Hon. John Barrett, recent Erye, both of whom held to the idea that trade follows the fing, the Springfield R. publican says:-
It is a curious fact that as these spokes. men were presenting what may be called the at Washington was preparing to publish figures adminstration view, the treasury department exhibiting the utter absurdity of it from a practical standpoint, The British
trade organs have been complaining that American exports to South Africa are increasing much faster than British exports. It
S
the British exports to British South Africa pointed out that in February, for example, were only about $33,000 larger than in the same month last year; while the American exports were in the same time $362,000 larger, And in connection with these figures the treasury bureau of statistics at Washington Africa have increased since 1894 from $84,423,850 calls attention to the fact that our exports to to $17,515,730, Nothing like such a growth can be shown in the British export trade with. that market. Here, then, is a case where were, seeks to avoid the flag, Political subre. trade does not follow the flag, but rather, as it maty for Great Britain in South Africa deas not assure commercial supremacy. In a country have the same fair and equal prospect." under British
laws,
trade being free, all nations "Trade follows the British flag" would be-a necessarily British trade, but all trade. We more trathful expression than the old one. Not can only hope to keep up British trade by a by striving to keep up the reputation for excel careful study of the wants of consumers, and
possessed. Here in Burma it may be noted lence of quality, which British goods formerly that since the annexation of Upper Burma, trade has enormously increased, but a very large proportion of the manufactured articles from Germany, Japan, Belgium, Holland and America French colonies where the fiscal policy of the In the government is entirely different, and every. thing is done to protect French manufac tures competing with those from foreign countries, not a single French colonial posses- sion pays its way. All are dependent on smaller-sums-of-money. They no doubt 10 France, and drain it annually of greater or some extent help French "manufactures. But French trade with Great Britain and other countries which do not protect French goods is probably very much greater than French trade with French possessions abroad. doubt our policy is the one which pays best in the long run, whilst all foreign powers soem largely assumed by England, as they know quite willing to see "the white man's burden" that where we annex we shall be sure to give every country a fair share with ourselves of all the trade capabilities of the new possession Rangoon Times.
Meanwhile Colley lay dead on Majuba till. There was no fight for him. That he welcomed death and possibly sought it is probable, but the stories relative' to his having met it by his own hand have no foundation. The Boers did not shoot-him-when-they reached the top knowing who he was. They were amazed to find him amongst the dead and on the disconeumed covery of his body were exultant not at his death, for they respected him, but at the fact of the fall of the leader of their foes which accen- body was handed over to the British for inter- tuated the completeness of their victory. His ment. A week later, Genera! Wood look over command and negotiations followed ending in a peare which every British resident in South Africa knew could only end in war sooner or later.
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"On the 8th February, General Colley moved out of his camp at Mount Prospect to re-open communications with Newcastle, He was stopped at the crossing of the Ingogo River. He had with him the 3rd-both and two guns and although the opposition was weak at the outset he was unable to force his way through. A correspondent of the Morning Post makes By noon the Boers had been reinforced and some very sensible remarks on the legal their fire was deadly. The two guns were
administration of the Crown Colonies which silenced, it being impossible for a gunner to
will soon have to be considered. Under the stand up without being hit. In the afternoon
present system, in
many instances, the writer the action may be said to have almost ceased
says, too much work is demanded for too little as the Boers were then in considerable. num.
pay either the salaries should be larger or the bers and the British voro powerless to move.
number of Judges increased. Then, too, the When darkness set in the force was moved should be more clearly defined, while it would duties of Puisne Judges and Chief Justices back over the Ingogo. The 3rd 60th had to help to drag the guns, the limbers wer
also be well if some way could be found where abandoned, the wounded left on the field,
by a judge should know whether his appoint under the care of a doctor and ten renment is for a few months or a term of Torrents of rain fell throughtout the night
He refers in this respect chiefly to the Judges and a number of men and an officer, Lieu to change their place of residence and move in the Straits Settlements, who are expected tenant Wilkinson, were drowned "in" ing the river, which was then in flood. The their household penates much in the
sapie remnant of the force reached camp early in the
way as an officer in a marching regiment. morning la an exhausted condition. The
He cannot help thinking that it would be losses were heavy. The troops had again a wiser plan to appoint a man to a certain shown gallantry, but they were shaken and had post for a definite period. The same principle is seen in the moving of a Judge from one do to abandon promotion, but why should not the promotion be from an inferior post in a Colony to a higher past in the same Colony? In the olden days the roving Judge was doubt less the most convenient and the most econo mical way of administering the law in the Crown Colonies, but now that this portion of faster, it might perhaps be well to reconsider the Empire has grown, and is growing still the position. If this were done, we should probably hear leas of its being impossible to get able barristers to go out to the Colonies. A man will not leave a certain income in Eng- Colonial Service, but many a sound young land to take up a roving commission in the fawyer would gladly enter the legal branch of the Colonial Service if he knew that in course of time he was certain to rise to the post of Chief Justice in his own Colony, and was sure of not having to meet the com petition of the oatire service at every step. Again in certain Colonies the salaries paid are quite inadequate to keep up the position re quired. No Judge may orgage in commercial enterprises or be a shareholder in any company in a Crown Colony. Accordingly he has to 1ook on while other men are growing rich around him, and see the plums that might fall to his lot picked up by the local merchants and other residents. Doubtless these rules are right and proper and even necessary. But it is hardly fair to forbid a man to take advantage of his opportunities and at the same to compel
by this time acquired the belief that up to 500 Colony to another. or 6cc yards it only became necessary to show one's self to be hit. This bellef was undoubt edly justified. At Lang's Nek, the Naval Bri. gade were working rockets, certainly over 600 yards from the Boers and were protected by the stone-wall of a cattle kraal which gave them. simple protection as high as the shoulder, but it was not possible for a man to show his head without being hit. This was not due to valley firing or heavy fire. It was individual marks- manship. The officers had at length begun to realias that without cavalry they were helpless and that the Relief Column could not longer
fulfil its aim
By this time, the reinforcements from India had landed and had moved up to the Biggard berg. They were splendid Loops, they had been through the Afghan war werd seasoned and anxious to avenge, their comrades
Bir Evelyn Wood had arrived before this and was busy arranging for the rapid concentration of the forces He advanced from the Biggars berg about the middle of February, leaving at dusk and making a forced march unhampered by transport to the Ingagane river, where the advance of the reinforcements might possibly be resisted by a cominando of Free Staters. But although they were on the north bank of The Ingagane on the day before Wood's arrival, they fell back to Lang's Nek. The tugagano river is Afteen miles south of Newcastle and Lang's Nek is thirty miles north The Bours had the penetrated far fato Natal Wood had with him, a compact, tried and seasoned him to five on a salary which is not sufficient fores, unhampered by transport, and reached for blin to meet the requirements, social and Newcastle unopposed and a few hundred men Kotherwise, that are expected from him.
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DENTISTRY
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to PHOTOGRAPHS and PORTRAITS be left in the Godowns, where they will be IVORY are executed at Moderale Prices. examined on TUESDAY, the 34th instant.. and THURSDAY, the 26th instant, at 9.30 AM
All Claims must reach us before the 3rd November, or they will not be recognized,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
;,:r", - No Fire Insurance has been effected.
MELCHERS & Co.,
·Agents... Hongkong, 17th October, 1899. [12934
SUI SANG,
(Lately Practising with Dr. I. SARATA),
DENTIST,
No. 4, Queen's Road Central, Hongbang, 8th March, 1899)
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