"ALL THE WORLD WONDERED."

NZ Truth, Issue 87, 16 February 1907, Page 8

"ALL THE WORLD WONDERED."

• — ♦ While Mr_Haldane is straining and panning to stimulate voluntary re-, cruiting, says the London "Clarion," the papers report, the death of another Balaclava survivor m the workhouse and enumerate some half-a-dozen other Crimean and Indian Mutmv veterans who have eaten their frugal Christtmas dinners m the Na-i tional Shelter for Shameful Failures: Half a life, half an age, Fifty years after, Into the shameful death Drift the Six Hundred. Theirs an inglorious fate, Tired:, pf official prater" Limping with weary gait, In at the workhouse gate . ' Drift the Six Hundred. Pity the Light Brigade, Hungry and sore dismayed, Now by. red tape /betrayed, Poor old Six Hundred. Contrast them now— with when /Into the devil's den, ' ' Rode those brave Englishmen, - .' "G-allant Six Hundred." ' Red tape to right of them, Red tape to left of them, Red tape m front of them, Stammered and' blundered. Theirsvnot to reason" why, Theirs not to make reply. Theirs but to starve arid die V In at the workhouse gate Drift. the Six Hundred !; Then recall the other' verse :— ; When can their glory fade ? O the wild charge they made ! All the world wondered. .■'■""' Honour ' the charge they made! : Honour the Light Brigade, Noble Six Hundred ! ■ - Witih this, awful example of national indignation before their ryes is it surprising that the young men of G-reat Britain look shyly at Mr Halda'ne's baits ?