LADS WHO WANT TO FIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue XXXVIII, 25 June 1900, Page 4

LADS WHO WANT TO FIGHT.

The following letter is from two Engglis!) iads who were determined to get to the front : — " Dear Chum,—Just a few lines to you hoping this will find you quite well as it leaves us at present We are all glad to say that wp got stowed away all right, and yjt. Waite, and lee.-Corpl. Carver was not quite up to date in catching us. We just caught the train as it was leaving Fareham. When we got to Southampton we went straight to the Soldiers' Home and got a room for the night, and next morning we got up early and went to the doci<B and manned the boat before the troops got there, and we went down to the bottom of the ship where they put the stores, and while we were there crammed up in a corner, one of tlie workmen came down to shift some hay, and he^c«3<?j down and put the hay right on top O ( f us. When the man was gone and th(|. ship started, we had a bit of a scrir&meige to get out of the • hay, and we did git out we had a ' skirmush round the stores, and fo'ind barrels of lemonade and biscuits, aid these we liyed on for two days. Thei| we went up on decfe with the others* The fourth day out we got bowled.*by Bjt. Fuller, and he tool: us up bgfore Lieut Poynder, and he only pip us in mess. Please will you tell Widens and Masterton to look j aftfr our kits. We were sea sick the '! 2nd day oift, but we have been alright i since. Tile ship is going to stouatLas j Palmas, we heard that they were J going tc/l.md us, but we have got one > of the snip's crew to hide us, and lie is t going to tell us when she stop. It is a ■' pity you and jimmy could not get away. ■j I think this is all I have to say at present.—l remain, yours tru'ely A Diamond and D. Phillips. P.S.—Excuse the writing because we can't help it. We was born like it." A Reuters telegram from Bloemfontein reports that when some waggons were bein^ unloaded on Wednesday at Glen Siding, a boy 16 years of age was found in hiding. 11^ j 8 named Kelly, and is the son of a private in the bcottiah Borderers. He went over as a stowaway, and managed to reach East London, where he hid in a train and went on to Gien. Bis one wish is to join hie lather.