The South African Republics; This Souvenir Is Published for and in Behalf of the Boer Relief Fund to Aid the Widows and Children of Those Brave Men Wh

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...should have dis-a eare. pp The battle began at 7 o'clock in the mornin. One regiment of the English was annihilated. Among the wounded is Colonel Blonfiield. General Woodgate is among the British dead. Ten men of 'I'hornycroft's Mounted Infantry took up a strong position and when the burghers saw this. three of our men ran up and opened fire. In Just three minutes all the Britishers lay dead in a trench. From the Battlefield. Consul-General Charles D. Pierce informed a reporter from the Journal that he has received one of the most interesting documents that has come from South Africa since the Boer war began--a copy of the Express, a local paperpubiished n Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, the very first newspaper of the Dark Continent to reach America since the lioers began their struggle for permanent freedom. The following letters from a Bloemfontein lad, J. A. S. Faustman, to his father, from the battlefield, in the trenches: --BOMBS AND FIRE BALLS LIKE RAIN. Splon Kop, Tugela, January 24, 1900. My Dear Father: --I have a few minutes at my disposal this morning, having come from our sloot (ditch), which we dug. I will give you a short account of what has happened since the 17th. The English had advanced to this spot. evidently to try to break through. Our horses are in the sloot behind the mountains. Since Thursday we have been under continual fire, morning. noon and night. The bombs fail like rain drops, the size of the bomb is 1S inches long and 10 inches in diameter. We look like cats creeping out of the sloot to stretch our legs. Three days ago a bomb burst on our position and we were quite under the dust; had one piece of bomb fallen two inches lower two of us would have been killed. This morning th...