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Phillip H. Sears scholarship to Jesse De Boer 1G, of Grand Rapids, Mich...
Last week loyal subjects glowed and grinned as they read the breezy and colloquial first messages of new Prime Minister Winston Churchill to His Majesty's farflung Governments down under and up top. Mr. Churchill, who fought as a youth in the Boer War and has taken the world for his apple all his life, whipped out a cable to South African Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts: It Is A Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And The Peoples Of The Union...
...initial British force. At their head was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, a 60-year oldster chosen not merely because he is Belgian-born and can thus speak freely to his French allies, but because he has a long record of commanding where shot & shell are thickest. A Boer and World War I veteran, he has won a V. C. and lost an eye and a hand in the King's service. The General has every reason for wanting another crack at the Germans. Seventeen years ago he retired to an estate in Poland which he will...
Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys...
...then that he donned, for the first time, the Garibaldis' traditional red shirt ("because a man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, held the title of Citizen-Colonel-&-Commander -of -the -Artillery -of -the -Army-of-the-Orient. Faced with mutiny, he shot every tenth man in one company...