| Show WRITING OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR Magazine Discussion of the Brit Conflict VIEW OF IJ 1 are arc by bf of be r r rNe Ne New Yink Jan White While who ho wu was consul conui general of the South I African Republic In London until the I outbreak ot of the War nn an article to the February North orth American Hevle on the South African war The circumstances commonly held to ho bo reo re responsible for tor the tho present situation ho he merely glances ot at Among these he points to the discontent ot of the British element In Johannesburg the clumsy diplomacy of at Mr Chamberlain the RC no of Mr tr whom ho he describes as n a C capitalist politician who had ruined lila his career ns as n a states state statesman man b by nn an act or of mad toll folly and who was burnIng to be revenged ott those whom he had bitterly wronged There wore Yere three Immensely powerful but lut forces name namely I greed of gold lust of empire and n a thirst for tor reo re renge enge Mr Ir White devotes vcr very particular nC at to one influence which has common been overlooked namely the growth of personal rule as embodied In Inthe inthe the high commissioner of South Africa L LIr Mr Ir White Is especially severe the present high commissioner Sir Alfred AUre and anel charges him with having haIng systematIcally utilized every eer force and opportunity to bring about tho ho present war his hll expressed object be belag lag according to Mr White to break the power Jower of In the February number of at the North American Review the war warIs Is discussed b by Gen flea John 1 Own Oven of oC t the o Hoal a artillery lie r British Captain Fritz or of the tho German arm army retired Major General O 0 O 0 Howard U S A retired Henry Cust Cueto formerlY editor of the Pall Mall Ga an anzette Gazette zette and Dr J 7 C author of oC FIrt Fifty Years of the In South Africa General Owen says that The Beer strategy has been excellent anti that In military Intelligence the they ha hare shown first rate organization The They he have taught us a lesson In the use ot of heavy guns ot of position which they move with comparative tn in the field Rapid firing guns ot of small calibre or of most recent pa pattern are used usell often with terrible effect their lIry has hns been beon e II ha handled nd mos mostly by their me mercenaries but i u t th the ammunition used urea nas urea very tn ot of the British strategy flea Oen eral Owen says It Is to judge or of It knowing the exact r reasons dictating departure from th the original plan but It seems to him that It would have hae been bettor to have car tied out the first plan ot at all 1111 cot costs thought though one army corps would not hare The Intelligence department ho he hoIn In says has hns not been successful ful Capt Boenig takes the view that mistake consisted tn In Inthe the that her political and military action whIch were evidently both hoth In intended tended to bear nr nil an offensive character did not keep pace paco with each Iah other Captain Hoeing estimates the forces at not tar far short or of sixty thousand and men and ho that the tho t forces In the firM must nt at the tho very ery least leut reach rench It a total I of men If England is to drive back her antagonists b by force torce ot of arms amP dictate peace nt at Pretoria In addition to his large tOItO foree about forty thousand men wilt will be required In Natal and In Cape rolon Colony for tor minor a well vell as 11 for tor the protection of the tho rail railway WilY lines lne etc elf flea Oen briefly the tho campaIgn tIp to the time of Ion Oen lr lets tint first attempt to cross the Tu ela the situation us It thed stood he MYS Lord must choose one ot of three of advance so 0 soon loon as he o has enough men to work workout workout out n a decisive he Dwelling UP UPon upon on on tile the military problems the lit new ff f the British forces In Routh Africa I so says Viii h he take taka Durban It If ItIs Is the tho shortest but It Is II Intrinsically the most to carry Irr and has hns the best HOr tu to It Will vili he ha the linc through the 1 State but I think not nol lie wilt 11 nt need ld however to clear cross cros and secure the tho country countr belu below to th Orange river rier that he have hase th the connecting rail railways ways train via 11 to toDe toDo Do De Mr ARr as a secondary base That could be done Then he could go forward rapidly the western railroad above D Dc Aar as he out to join then cru crush h forces rell relieve p Kimberley and ot at once onro brook break across eastward to the tho centrAl centrI railroad and use that road rond for tor I a rapid advance upon Pretoria or Of Joubert would woud retire from Colenso and the tho instant lie he lilt saw V Lord plan Then Huller Buller pick pp Whites force torce or of five thousand and press along with I r to t keep a as man many D Doer r sol soldier diors dier II as possible o there to oppose his threats against Johannesburg and torla by that route routt It after the defeat ot of Cronje Joubert and hi his stalwart pr president lIl dent did not make there would be first II a hard fought battle baulo near Kronstad and another the last one lit at Mr Ir Cust who On the Dutch In South Africa says In one porn pam graph A thousand voices tell us that It Is the land greed reed the gold goltl greed the empIre greed of England that have barn mode made the war the they scream Is the tyrant of tree free nations Yet it II Is a Frendl born government loyal 1001 to England that sends Renas troops to o otile tile the front from Canada and amI It is a Dutch government loyal to England that Is In power nt at the Cape Calle toda today Formulas grow meaningless b by repetition lion tion hut Iut whit truth the they Is un Unchanged changed chang d When England claims Equal i rights far tor all 1111 white while men south lOuth or of the he cIte says what genera generations In practice Proved true that tha t tIn In no English or of the world has the proudest richest Englishman one oze lonely political or commercial tags oVer ant and poorest for tor eUro Immigrant Dr Voight hits Interesting article on The ers In Natal with the following The largest orm army which England hu has ever hall had on the Iho In fri South twenty thousand men horse foot and artillery with powerful huns buns train British warshIps and with shells to tn help heip Wen been hurled hark bark tram from Uk the tipper Tu Tugela ela line losing 2000 men In killed wounded and prisoners and also alAo guns gunt guntOn gunsOn On the Tup where there the fathers died In aye and south fOuth ot of the Tu Tn gela are the cons now on the sixteenth of December rhey are there with Lucas Lucal eyer with lIh Louis flotha mother molher was In the laa er on the river in and Burger whose ho o father tather wall now outlawed and proscribed bed b by the British government and went across rg In The They stand on the tho while In Inthe inthe the back ground the great where the snow white ever glow rear their topmost peals above the cloud The British general has asked for foran nn an armistice to bul bury his the sixteenth or of bur bury his hili del dead In the very H ground whore ret reet some of the tho bones of the murdered Avenge the tho crowds have hae shouted In and nt at Durhan and Capetown God has hils avenged nek instead |
