Daily Colonist (1903-02-18) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1903-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

^ McLaren's, the Leading

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£ A New Shipme&t Just Arrived. All Flavors.

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FOn TAVO DATS OXI^Y.

C01>riER TATE 5 AND DOUGLAS

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Memorsai

Today Anniversary of ^Y1e^llor. able UalUe In Which Canadians Took Part.

Tonight There Vv'ill Be a Cclc-braiiun in the Drill Hall.

rAAKinilUOlU!

On I'overoud lips Oh liclil of iihi

Tfet, of 11 tnilli. WltJi deeds \ha

,vc hn-allicd lay iiaiiu'. ;lller,--lleia of fMlil.^; ir lii'iirls weri' loiiil iiiiide I lie uiilloii pnnul.

;A maide Icnf e'er ljuinble ;;i';iveMV

Nay! Oci- iUr lOh.plr.'ri Self Jl v,-.'i\-i»;

AnA PnardfbcrK resounds afar Ifiom flery Croas to I'olar Star.

lAway wltli grlctl Our hearts were sore;

Wo sickened with the thoUKhts of Rore-!&.nd yet while those we loved were lost.

Afresh still surged our KnthorlnK host.

[For not a man, whose eyes were moist. But grimly In his soul rejoiced

That llioy—llie eoinriule ami the friend Had lived to make a Rallant end.

'Jiui Scott, and Manndrell, Todd and llmsi Who Knippled with Itrltunnla'.s foes.

Tho' sinklni; earthward.s 'mid the >laiii. In spirit rose to flsht aKaln.

Lo! Iiow the Spirit nt the West In peerless splendor stood eonfes.sod

At Faardebere while strewed the eJirLli Dead sons who cave Ihelr nation lilrth!

—Frederic IrvluR Taylor. Vletorla, n. C. . .

erosslDRs were used about 50 yards apnrt, over one of Whlcb a rope stretched, by . iii 'h mo ini'U passei! across by holdini; on til It. and at the other the men passed <i>-er In fours with linked arms. The c.nn-liiiiiles as ihev eross.id weie pushed forward, aud at 10 a. iii., "A" and --r" Cos., under Captains Arnold ami liarker. were In the lirlui; I'lie at about ISOO yar. s Ii 'iu the enemy, who ooi-iipliHl tho woods :il u:; I:ie ed:,-e of llie river, l)ut were totally hlil-lieu from view. They also oei'upled a series (if doiit'as end adin^ our left I'Muk. lii.t this was 11.il dlseovereil uatll the after-i-ooii, when they disel sed themselves, id-itliiiiLih tlii'y yere miiOilv "suii.'iiii; from ! that illreciiou all dav. "D" and "K" eoni-[■aules, miller ('a|ii:iiiis Ko^'ers ami l''ias r. I fo'-med the siipport, w«ille as "11" ••}•"' "11" and "II." romm in led i i',ip,'ei i vol v bv : I.I Iloss. (■.•ipl. I'el'ior. l.t. .\la doiie:i and j ('apt. Stairs, enme up, they formed (he re-

The remainder of the briirnde was disposed of as under: The Duke of Cornwall's I.. I. on our rlijht. but over the riv.'r: the Shropshirt's and (iordons on mir left In the I order ivimeil; but on the oUier side of the I hill wl;h a batlerv of artillery behind them. 1 The leittiillon, however, was praetleallv ! alone, and durliiu' the whole ilny reielwl II e-ri'.ers or 1 list mot lolls from aiivene until lo.nt 1 p. 111., as noted later on. In adill-ilon to It,,. i!)th r.rl^ade, the ^nl (Hl«h-I l.indr ISrii-'aile was eimaaod on tho south ! ^lili> of the river, and with It were tho I ('i>rinvaUs up lo about 2 V. m. f Mrbiu' be^'un about !>:;!() a, in. from the noiny's left nt ver.v lonu rancres. and eoii-

hi;: partlf-a until about 10 p. ni.

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