Show B1TONS ARE SGAREO Public is Aghast at Dewefs Success ci e SITUATION IS VERY SERIOUS S S S S Liberal Papers Ironically Inquire Is 1 this Guerrilla WnrfaroP Kotuxnetl Canadian Officers not Surprised at tho Soer Successes Tho Only Wonder is They Say that They Have not Been Greater Believe However that Kitchener is the 1 Bight Man to Deal With Boers r London Dec 1 South Africa onco more monopolizes attention The public 1 pub-lic Is aghast ht Gen Dewets recent t HUCCSSS at Pcwclsdorp where lie captured S cap-tured the British garrison of 400 men t and two guns as already cabled to the Associated Press In detail Is this f guerrilla warfare the Liberal papers Ironically inquire Why l g asked on alludes are these troops coming 5 cz horneT The ovnUqnwi to Ihp victora S strike even Ihope participating ir > them tL us hollow compared with the events C transpiring at the seal of War Parliament Parlia-ment not being in session the public th is not favored With any Insight into the IS War ofllccH opinion and pinna But It 4f iH credited with varying Ideas from tS iz philosophic Indifference lo acute panic S SITUATION SERIOUS t A representative of the Associated Press Interviewed mie of the responsible 4fL re-sponsible heads of departments and 4ct elicited the following views Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly the slUuatlon in South Africa T11 Af-rica IK serious It resembles In nitiny respects Americas trouble with the i5ai Filipinos We cannot expect to crush iEii55 out opposition for some time lo come jc5L We are not withdrawing troops indiscriminately rktJy indis-criminately nor are wu indifferent to IJ the gravity of the problem The household cavalry has come because t ± heavy cavalry Is useless The Infantry ih Infan-try too is of comparatively small ept service We rely upon two things to th bring about peace First the transformation Ii transfor-mation as far as possible of all the Iih British troops In the disturbed districts into mobile cavalry and mounted Infantry s In-fantry Second through th establishment estab-lishment of a police force Uniil the Sl S hitter gets into working order evenS even-S S the cavalry will not be able to accomplish accom-plish much Tho police force should he similar to the Irish constabulary inly all the men will he mounted S L5 When that body Is organized I bcllovc a change will quickly come over the 1n S situation 1ICr VETERANS NOT SURPRISED tSIT The Canadian officers who returned here from South Africa thin week expressed Ltk pressed no surprise at the renewal of S ST Boer successes They only wondered that they had not been greater The Canadians however are unanImous In i 1i expressing the belief that Gen Hitch i ener is the right man to deal with the form of opposition now faced by the British in South Africa Hardly any A of the returning officers expressed 1L1L criticism1 of Lord Roberts even In the It face of recent reverses The general 1 L feeling toward the Field Marshal Is S well put by the Sun of this city It naysLord Lord Roberts is a brilliant dashing S Koldler and has displayed consummate ability But after all we fear lie IB S loo much oC a humanitarian f ftp Vhftu S work now to be done Once KUchenci gets lo work on the Boers nothing wlll top him f T V |