1901 11 05 The China Mail

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

THE ATTACK ON COLONEL BENSON’S COLUMN.

SAFETY OF LIEUTENANT JACKSON.

The community of Hong Kong will be pleased to learn that Sir Thomas Jackson[1] received a telegram from London last night containing the reassuring intelligence that his son, the Lieutenant Jackson[2], 1st King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), who was A.D.C. to Colonel Benson was quite safe, and had not even been wounded in the recent attack on Colonel Benson’s column.