Our jubilation over the fall of Pretoria still further discounted by the almost simultimeous reception of the news of the surrender of 2 battalion of Imperial Yeomanry near Lindley. Including as_it did a couple of companies of the " Kid Glove Brigade " or "Millionaires" as they have been variously dubbed—the Duke of Cambridge's Own—its capture after serious leeees in Killed ated wounded has plunged considerable number of noble families into anxiety and mourning. We have not yet received an official list of the missing but among them are said to be two sons and two nephews of Sir James Blythe, a nephew of Mr. Goschen, Mr. W. H. Wakefield (an old Oxford Blue), and Mr. Lubbock; while among the killed is Sir J. E. C. Power, Bart., and among the wounded are the Earl of Longford and Mr. J. M. Gathorne Hardy. There was a good deal of criticism of the formation of the Duke of Cambridge's Own before they started for the front. Since all the Imperial Yeo-maury and Volunteers at the front are voluntarily risking their lives, and most of them making considerable pecuniary sacrifices for the country, it seemed to many people a mistake to raise 2 special body demanding a monetary qualification and instituting a class distinction. But although the facts of the surrender are not yet fully known, no one doubts that the Duke's Own rendered as good an account of themselves as was humanly possible under the circumstances.
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