Show I S A fcwa least of the British Generals S In South Africa havo learned some needed lessons The Capetown core S l spondont of the London Telegraph 55 writes to his paper that the scouts repeatedly re-peatedly warned the Generals In command com-mand of tho existence of trenches on I the south bank of the Madder river S but their information was disregarded and tho advance was ordered the next 5 morning with an easy confidence and 5 without taking the precaution to ascertain 55 ascer-tain whether the scouts were right orS not and this was repeated more than S once with the natural disasters following S follow-ing The truth is tho British believed S they were invincible and so scorned the S common rules of caution that governS govern-S 5 commanders They havo learned I sev oral lessons hut the education has been j costly and sometimes humiliating |