OUR COLONIAL FORCES.
THE STANDARD'S OPINION. GALLANTRY OF A QUEENSLANDER LONDON, January 18. The Standard states it is strange that tho War Office should for years have disregarded the potentialities of Australia as a recruiting ground for light cavalry and mounted mfaijtry. There ought to be all classes of Imperial officers employed thero. An ontliusiastic regenerated army ought to be composed ot Britons from every part of the Empire. j Lord Lsimington has sent the Queens- I landers at the front, two hundred weight of tobacoo. Bennett Burleigh's letter in the Daily J Telegraph shows that Captain Fltzpatrick, the Queensland special service officer, behaved witn conspicuous bravery in the defence of Long's guns at Tugela. He escaped unhurt, j I j
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9942, 19 January 1900, Page 2
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121OUR COLONIAL FORCES. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9942, 19 January 1900, Page 2
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