| Show OT VII 8 San Francisco Chronicle The h commander seems to have hao been so 80 confident ol of that he neglected the ordinary precautions of scoutIng for the Doer outposts lIe was In the thick ot of a battle before he was aware that he Was in range ronge of the Doer noer guns and findIng his forces outnumbered berro himself outgeneraled and his foes In Impregnable positIons and possessed of more artIllery there was nothing left to do but to beat Q a retreat The one consolation remaining to the forces turces Is that thaI the retreat to 10 olleno Molteno was Val mode modI In an orderly manner But their losses Ire are astounding The cue CM reported are only two killed an seventeen wounded but five fie hundred and ninetysix men ate lite mIssing minIng niLe nio beIng ol officers cerl The uncertainty of the rail fate ot of the missing I Is what Is 11 now mile the Jt IL seems Incredible that under the galling tire fire to whIch the were subject eel ed only two men should have bae ten been killed and that thai the equivalent ot of half hail haila u a of the force toree which time be b prisoners Chicago This disaster Is almost certain to pro produce duet duce serious consequences The lbs mary marT object or of the Iho expeditIon was vas lIy h defeating the fhe to put an end to the disaffection among the Cape Cal Col Colon on any Dutch hut this signal Doer Ina be expected to Increase I Dutch and many men muon of lime country may mas be expected to flock to lIl time burghers her standard Even Oen aen communIcations may loe be en endangered by this move The I contemplated union of anti and I forces has been Prevented and the of the sImultaneous ad adanee advance i vance anee or of the lh three British have bave been greatly increased Los Angeles Express It 11 Is too munch to expect a great na nalton nation tion like England to consider any prop proposition looking to tl a of U under existing circumstances but bUI just a H coon foon mis HI It a decisive battle I is fought find and u Icon In ono one way or the other steps should hould lie be taken 11 by the tho powers to stop tol hl needless slaughter Unless u there Is It looks nl as though the extermInation n ot of the hoer I Is a foregone conclusion for tor d despite the re is rea rs s a UI to dal date there can oon be no dues a to the final triumph of Eng Bag I I |
