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Hnranine wage entitled "Remember Hajuba" and included
an interview with a veteran of the battle$ photographs
of graver of British soldiers killed and inumerablo
con onto on Boor duplicity,
(I)
That Dail Mail devoted itself almost entirely to
aspects of the war. ICipling'o war poem "The absent
minded beggar" appeared in the Mail on 31st October 1899,
and was used in an appeal for a Patriotic Fund to help
destitute soldiers# wiven, widows eta. Music was
composed for the poem "band parts wore written and
the most famous brans bands in the country entered for
the Absent Minded Beggar competition at the Royal Albert
,, an, Oll
(2)
Emotional scone* surrounding the
departure of troops were described, especially in the
case of the City Imperial Volunteers on 14th January
Events during the first months of the war in the
Birmingham suburb of andcworth were representative of
(1) January 1900,
(2) Kennedy Jones, Fleet St. anti D: awninE Sty p. 23.
(3) Daily 1 n11,15th January 1900.
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