A OATACBE PE.MINISCRNCE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12497, 7 May 1906, Page 7

A OATACBE PE.MINISCRNCE.

"With referouce fo the death of Major--1 Ceneral Sir William (tatacre, it was my s-onn-what, painful duty to visit his tent I immediately after the Stormliorg disaster i (writes a military correspondent in i "M.A.P.") I nevi'r fwiw a man so. com-]->lettily broken down. I had won him laKt immediat'fly before the night marcli that wan to end in so unfortunate a fashion. He was then in tho highest of spirits, and the thought of failure did not apparently enter into his mind, as by all the rules of scientific warfare ho had the Boer force at Stormberg Junction in the hollow of his hand. After his repulse his facrv was haggard and wii.sted, and his hair seemed perceptibly whiter. At first he Lad no heart fo discuss anything, and with hi-s a.shen face buried in his hands he kept murmuring, "My poor, bravo soldiers, my poor, bravo -soldiers!'' Presently, howevr. when 'the fir-' shock had somewhat p-av-e 1 away, (lataero surang to his f-et: with charapiori.-tic energy, and exclaimed. "I will avenge them, every one of them!" L-ito as the hour w.i- he simimoiied hi.s .staff around him and began in--;antly to prepare his plans for another attack on the Hoors. Shattered and broken ns his weak force wa.s hewould 1-rook 310 d. lav. and a proposal lo telegraph to (lonori! duller for reinforcements was indignantly scouted by him. •Buller wants every man ho has got," t'ataeie di dared. '*We aro going lin carry this t::roii'_h by ' ouii-Mv'yv' j Tlie fit s. however, were against him, I and I do not think he ever quite shook I oli Uie effects of that awful night.