BULLER MOVED TO TEARS.
An interesting allusion to General Buller after the Tugela retreat is contained in a letter received at Newcastle from a private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, serving with the Natal Field Force. In the letter he says : —You know I told you in my last letter that a big fight was coming off. Well, so it did, and the Boers came off best. They played the very dpvil with us, and in our retirement there were more killed than there were in the regular engagement. When it was all over the Boers took the boots and clothing of the dead, and cut the rings off the fingers of some of the officers and men. It was a horrible sight. When the engagement was over, General Bailer went round, and to show how he felt it, big tears rolled down his face to see such a lot of killed and wounded. Colenso is surrounded with big mountains and hills. The Boers are behind them, and we might just as well try and shoot the moon as try to get them out of it.
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Lake County Press, Issue 907, 19 April 1900, Page 5
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