Wednesday's Daily Telegraph contains a long telegram from Mr. Bennet
Burleigh, its special correspondent at the front, giving an account of the wrecking of a train at Waterval last Saturday. The train contained, besides an escort of officers and men, two ladies, with their children, and a nurse named Page. While the train was going slowly through a cutting a signal was given by a native and two mines were exploded. At the same time a heavy file was opened on the carriages and trucks by a body of Boers numbering about one hundred. The Boers soon entered the train, and Colonel Vandeleur, a most excAllent officer, was at once shot. Though the ladies begged the Boers not to fire on women and children, a Boer deliberately raised his rifle and shot Nurse Page, whom he appeared to know. Nurse Page, however, though badly wounded, is still alive. The Boers then looted the train of all valuables. It is not necessary to characterise this outrage, for which there • can be no excuse: The wrecking of train .4 with ordinary passengers on board is bad enough, but may be explained, but the murder of women is pure brutality. It appears that the attack was planhed and carried out by Hinton, the notorious train.
wrecker. If the Boers imagine that their chances of getting the terms which Mr. Kruger declares will alone satisfy them are improved by such incidents, they are very much mistaken.
