'Speed Dead Slow.'
But a disappointment was in store for us all the same. The column did not move next day (the 15th), but although engine after engine came puffing up from Potchefstroom they all failed to bring the carriages which our aching legs made us so anxiously look for. We heard of the strike of forty engine-drivers at Potchefstroom, but as they had all been cast into durance vile, and the engines still continued to arrive, that could not have been the reason. However, any doubts we entertained were soon set at rest by an order to continue our march to Johannesburg next day.
Lieut. Ely.
Died at sea of Enteric.
Capt. H. Carington Smith.
Wounded at Sanna's Post
and Heidelberg.
