Show i Wltl I I FEE E I HGMT I I I I I I i I OH fAll BACK K I I t England Worries Over Future Course of White h RESULT FEARED WHEN BOERS ARE MASSED Hope That He Will Walt Until He Is Reinforced t Thoroughly Realized That the Transvaal Forces Are Dangerous and That a Calamity May Fall Upon the Inferior Number ot British TroopsRushing Soldiers to South AfricaSpeculation as Ito ito I-to What Awaits Them There I 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Pretoria Oct 21Vfn Lour + + enzo Marquez Commandant + f General Joubert has left Glencoe + + for the front + + A report has been received + + here that Maf eking is burning + t + + + tttttttttttt + t Copyright 1S90 by tho Associated Press London Got 2SThe South African war has now been in progress nearly three weeks and so far the British arms have been consistently crowned wIth momentary successes t1 > ugh at a cost which verifies President Krugers prediction that the conflict would stagger stag-ger humanity But though victor has fallen to Great Britain whenever and wherever the issues were oC paramount importance General Whites position today is scarcely more reassuring than at the outbreak > of the war So far he has only shown his ability to outwit by strategy the Boers s faftteg > That In its conception meet high praise 5IeSY from the British militarjlraittes Now he appears to bav eeled the limit of this game of war by which he was able to prevent the masanfir of the Boer columns and must either meet the enemys combined forces or retreat Many people think General I ii Sir George White White should rest content with the successes ro far achieved and fallback fall-back pointing out that he appears to be fully able to move his forces quickly quick-ly and without deterioration It is scarcelY probable that he will follow this course preferring rather to hold Lad smith though against much superior numbers until reinforced It is the fee > ng that the general intends to follow the latter course that creates uneasiness i for victories over Boers units are not believed to indicate that the iiine result can be achieved over the Boer when massed Plans of the Boers Compared with this impending movement move-ment about Ladysmith the fate of Kimberlej and Mafeking and the progress prog-ress of the other independent operations opera-tions are almost insignificant The rapidity ra-pidity of the Boer advance and the tenacity te-nacity of the endeavors of their columns col-umns to concentrate ore General White have proved clearly that the Boers plans were matured long before hostilities hostili-ties displaced negotiations and though they may be unable to stand before the brilliant charges of the British troops or ere their artillery with the skill of their opponents the are a mobile force and operate harmoniously under a carefully prepared plan of tam pair No one seems to have the faintest Idea of what conditions will confront the British army corps upon its arrival in South Africa Will it be an avenging aveng-ing force whose duty will be to wipe out the defeat of General WhIte and the capture of Mafekin and Kimberley Kimber-ley or will it simply be a walkover to Pretoria dispersing Boer bands disintegrated disin-tegrated b > the strain of a long campaign cam-paign and discouraged bj rev re-v These questions are uppermost in the minds of all connected with the war office Departure of Troops By Nov 4 the last troopship should hove sailed but the army corps vvlll scarcelv take the field until the end of December There Is a lull in the departure depar-ture of the troops forming the army corps owing the admiralty officials say to the troops not being retody The embarkation of 31000 men 1000 hordes and seven batteries of artBlerv with the wagons and equipment between be-tween Oct 10 and 24 is pointed to as being a splendid feat upon the part of the admiralty not forgetting how over to also give credit to the array for having the men read at tjw dock Lieutenant Commandant Colwell the United States naval attache here WHO closely watched the embarkation of the troops at Southampton said to a representative rep-resentative of the Associated Press It was a splendid sight Everything was done in splendid order Cto each transport a naval lieutenant wag in command and on the took a naval of Scer supervised the whole xhe array ofitcors had their men lined up and a stare sergeant pained along the ranks chopping eighteen melt ant at a tune thus forming inessast arohing x5 board they found everything prepared for them Cost of Mobilization Sir Charles Dilke writing to titer Sneaker draws axten fern to > the gieatfc tfo c tot the mobil zit m 01 a egtt narativjglr small arrtr ll1f says p Though the war offlce pros ssegf to 1 he pleased l with the result ot the niob ilfzatlon they look far longer to com < pTete arrangements thare the muximunv t period aKo ert by 1 other powers sIr > sI-r Contrnttfn Sir GltarTes decfred that I het present systeirt 11 l entirelyc4tong While that nation is 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