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those in a number of other townu. In November 1899,
on the departure of a Council employee who was going to
join his regiment in South Africa, the Assistant
Surveyor amid, "England io `burning with puticiotico.
Insults have been levelled at our country and nothing
but a yard of cold 'steel can mete out the necessary
punishment. The country is united, wrongs cunt be
righted and our crown remain unsullied. "
(1)' Such
extravagant language was paralleled by a local councillor
on the departure of the Volunteers of the South
Staffordshire regiment in February, - he won "eure we
had never engaged in a more just# necessary or more
righteous war (applause)"
(2)
Concerto and
entertainments for various war funds provided
opportunities for much patriotic conga and nucic; for
example that given in Uandnworth by members of the
Corbett family in Zlovoaber 1899, where soma euch as
"Ordered to the fray" and "a little patch of rod" were
(1) linndnworth Harald. 11th Novombor 1899
(2) Ibidle 17th February 1900#