Show THE ROBERTS DISPATCH To one without military knowledge the alspateh of Lord Robert detailing the events which kd up to Ocn LJtil lors failure simply shows what may be I loQked for at any time when educated but unpracticed officers attempt to make an aggressive campaign against a brave alert and capable enemy Assuming As-suming that he Hrtlsh olllccrs weiv educated men it Is clear that from Hit first they have nursed the belief that the steady lines of the British army would have nothing lo do but to move upon a foe to have victory assured as-sured The army of Uuller was pushed into j I I the ambuscade Just ns Braddocks army was just as the British army was sent In solid column up against the squirrelhunters and dead shots I behind the breastworks of Bunker hill I 1 just ns Pakenham sent the Wellington Welling-ton peninsula vcteinns up against the riflemen who ay behind the cotton balea nt New Orleans Tho effect of magazine rifles in the hands of dead shots and firing smokeless powder I seems never to have been considered the new problems caused by mairnrlno guns fluid rapidOre cannons using smokeless powder and carrlng overlong over-long distances seem never to have been considered much less solved Had the Biltish soldiers In the fulled Kingdom been compelled to make a four weeks campaign annually In the Highlands of Scotland for the past ton years amid been made subject lo alarms ambuscades and to having their communications with their base cut oft both officers and men would have gone to South Africa with different differ-ent Ideas from what they really entertained enter-tained At the same lime Gen Bullcr should not be too harshly criticised by his KU pei lor oflicer His force did nol compare com-pare In numbers with those of Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener and their progress has not Ijeen an uninterrupted success and Ihoush r their forces arc nevLii or eight to one of the enemy it seems that still another army larger than the entire I i Uoer force is i being rushed to Africa to reinforce the host I I i already lure I The one thine that I shines out fine Is the stubborn valor of the I men In I the ranks on both slden |