Rundle's Half-Starved Army

A'TREKOHAKT INDICTMENT

Mr Hales, the Australian journalist, ■finds to the Daily News an account of the condition qf Kundle's forces caused by aenii-atarvation :— 11 Lend me your ears and let me tell you (he writes) how our army in Africa is treated by the incompetent people in the gcod Oity of London. ) pledge my .word &a a man &n& ft journalist that every written word is true. If ray statements are proven ..false,"'.then let toe be scourged with th» tongue and pen of scorn from every decent Briton's hoaoe acd hparth for ever after, 11 General Rundle's task is a colossal one, and any sane man would think that gigantic efforts would be made to kaep him amply supplied with food for his soldiers. But such is not the oase. The men are absolutely starving, Many of the infantrymen are so weak that they Can hardly stagger along under the weight of their soldierly equipment. They ate worn to shadows and move with weary- listless footsteps on the march, People high up in,; authority may deny this, but he who denies it sullies the truth. This is \ what the soldiers get to ea-, what they have been getting to eat for a long time past, and what they are likely to get for a long time to come, unless England rouses herself and bites to the bone in regard to the people who arp responsible for it.

" One pound of raw Sour, which the soldirra have to cook after a hard day's canrcb, is served out to each man ©very alternate day. The following day he gets one pound of biscuits. In this country there is no fuel excepting a little ox-dung dried by the sun. If a soldier is lucky enot gi to pick up a little he can go to the nearest water, of which there is plenty, mix hk cake without yeast or baking powder, and make some sort of a wretched mouth ful. He gets one pound of raw fresh tneafc daily, which nine times out of ten he cannot cook, and there hie sup plies end. " What has become of the rations of ram, of sugar, of tea, of cocoa, of groceries generally ? Ask at the snug i little railway sidings where the goods are stacked—and forgotten. Ask in the big storea in Capetown and other se&porfc towns. Ask In your own country, where couatleßS thousands of pounde' worth of foodstuffs He rotting in the warehouse, bound up and tied down with red tape bandages. FALSE THAT SUPPLIES CA.NKOT BE GOT UP. •Ask—yee, ask; bufe don't stop at asking—damn somebody high up in power, for the taiat of this shameful thing rests upon you, upon every Briton whose homes, privileges, and prosperity is being safe-guarded by these famish ing men. The folk in authority will probably tell you that General Rundle and his splendid fellows are so isolated that food caanot be obtained fr»r them. I say tbafc is false, for receutly I, in company with another correspondent, left General Bundle's camp without an escort, We made our way in the saddle, taking oar two Oape carts with na to Winburg Station ; leaving our I hors'fl ah there, we took train for East London. Then back to the

junction and trained down to Oapa town, where w« remaned for forty eight hours, and then made our way back to Winburg and from Winburg w® came without escort to rejoin General Rundle at Hammonia. If two correspondents could traverse that country and get through with winter supplies for themselves, why cannot the transport people manage to do the 8a me?

Though what I have written does not bear the magical name of Steevens or of Forbes, it bears the hallmark of the eternal truth. Our men on the fields of war are famishing whilst vaV lions worth of food lies rotting on our wharves and in our cities, food that ought with ordinary management to be within easy reach of our fighting gene rals. Britain asks of Rundle the fulfilment of a task that would tax the energies aod abilities of the first general in Europe, and with a stout heart he faces the work in front of him, faces it with men whose knees knock under them when they march, with hands that shake when they shoulder their rifles— shake, but not with fear; tremble, but not from wounds, but from the weak ness, povery of blood and muscle, brought about by continual hunger. Are those men fit to storm a kopje Are they fit to tramp the whole night through to make a forced march to turn a position, and then fight like their fa; hers' fought next day ? j

MORE FOOD, LESS SPREAD BAGLBISM.

" I tell yoa no And yours be the shame if the Empire's flag be lowered — Dot theirs, but yours—for you—what do you do? You stand in your music halls and shout the chorus of songs full of Sentiments of pride for your soldiers, fall of praise for his patience, his pluck, and his devotion to duty ; and you let him go hungry, so hungry that I have scan him quarrel with a nigger for a handful of raw mealies on Ihe march It is co cheap to sing especially when your bellies are full of good eating j it costs nothing to open your mouths and sing praises It is pleasant to swagger and brag of 1 your fellows at the front, ' but why don't you see that they are fed, if you want them to fight?"

THE ASfIBURTON OTABDIAN : MONBAY, OGTOBEB 22, 1905

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New Coal Seam—lt is reported (says the Bruce I/itald) that the Fortification Com pany has struck a fine seam of coal in their new drive, which is simated to the left of the old one.



Thb Fedebal Commission—-The vote for the expenses of the Federal Commission is £500, and a like amount is set down for members of Parliament to attend tho Com irwnwealth celebrations at Sydney,



Government Helps—ln answer to his request, the Mayor of Christohurch has received a, telegram from Wellington to the cffdct that the Government will place one of its steamers at the disposal of the North Island Maoris to briDg them down to take part in the Jubilee celebrations. Arrasge* menta have been made for the Maoris to camp at the Show grounds during their stay. Old Rfiieia, wily in her schemes, Her eyes on India ofc has casb, And of the future vainly dreams When that dear land is hers at laat. Bub era we think of fehafc far day, Consider what we now endure— Ba*d coughs and colds, thai pass away On taking Woods Great) Peppermint Cure



You can depend on ridding your children of worms with Wades Worm Figs, the wanderful Worm Worriera. Is.



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