| Show or Republican Thu Doers Boers may make mako great grent efforts to menace Lord Roberts In Cape from the begin beginning ning of oC his invasion Indeed their reo re recent cent successes lit at point that WilY way The situation Is sure uell Indeed that litter after eliminating und and even Ladysmith students ot of modern military art both Loth In III l Europe uro e and this country are openly expressing grave doubts nl as to ability to carry the tho projected Invasion through to a 11 complete triumph The Hess Hesson on their part may well refrain front offering the Invaders opportunities to tight decisive battles until the toe foe has undergone the sweats ot of n a long march marchIn In III II a dry burning country countr tar far from theIr base baso ot of The invasion wilt will be no such brilliant night flight Into Egypt as Kitchener had on his 1111 WilY way to Khartoum Boston Herald The relief of may well prove a 11 turning point In the tho South At Af African rican war It Is the tint first strategic su cess ceu ot of any value alue that the British lIa i Mince the beginning of hostilities and anet It Is quite likely to lend lead to tur furth h r gains which will trans for ter to theIr sId the superiority that thin tho Joers enjoyed In the western Wha Whatever the fu u lure ture may ha store fur tur hUn him Lord Lurd Roberts In thIs movement has reputation as 48 Ii a great soldier 0 Spokane Review From this time forward the struGgle will not be the ode rt sided affair It has been Thu Tho real capacity of oC the hoer forcEs wall III how be tested We t e shall hall see how they stand under slight reverses and later lahr we may see seo hD how they bear benl more trying defeats Still there is 13 nothing In the outlook this morning to cause The Tho Spokesman Re Review view to change tl the l belief beller It has hns pre expressed that the red real struggle Jle gle Is yet et to It England over subjugates the tho Doer Hoerr It wilt be done II by the Hoer Boer armes If the Hoers ever eer dictate the terms of peace It t wll IIi lI le done only utter alter the tho British empire hu has been ed to II a stand still Peoria Journal The chances are that II a decisive bat battlo lb will be fought the coming week 11 Hy the term d decisive Is 18 meant 1 a bat battie tie that Will decide whether the ad vanes on the State capital Is Isto isto to be kept up n a new plan plant planor or t Is II to be inaugurated by Roberts In view of the almost overwhelming force that Lord Roberts now has hils under hi his control It mn may be as assumed assumed that the march to Pretoria has without even 1011 the best friends nd of oC the tho Boers ad admit mit that thal they must lose loae But there hits newer been beel a war In the history ot of England that has cost snore more than this one when the object to be pined gained IS considered There here I Is a n bet between leen throw throwIng lag Ing reinforcements Into a besieged place and Ind compelling the besiegers to raise the siege and withdraw their army To roo gays dispatches indicate that the so ro roI I lief eC or of Kimberley le Is complete General Irr french did snore moro titan throw men and Into the tho city Ite he compelled to cloo e between being cut oil off from his hili base at and abandoning the siege CronJe like Ilko a sensible man preferred to get back to towards towards wards rather rathor than lie be sur surrounded rounded l If Lord Roberts purpose was tu to bar army he tall failed dL but It ItIS IS equally probable that all l r for tor flier mer was to raise ralle the siege Worcester Gazette It Lord Roberta lid advance vance can pro proceed reed uninterrupted to the result should bo be to cause nil all the Boer Duer forces to rail fall back from their present It they did not do doso so 60 and Ho Roberta movement should hI be successful the would be cut off Hob orta erts movement should therefore result In the relief ot of Ladysmith Hullers force torce Is II kl kept t at the Tugela tt to hold a apart apart part of oC force torce and It If that force should remain there Roberts task would be eaSier It wOUld seem probable however that Joubert would join Cronje at for tor moro more would be gained by saving the city than by keeping White penned up In Ladysmith Cleveland Clellan Plain DenIer Dealer But Dut there is II much yet et to be known before the British can afford to rejoice greatly over r favorable reports t lord nl and Gen lire are excellent strategists RII as redl as AI hard fighters but the c commanders kno knob something about ea on and until further details ot of the movements or of the last too hI or three days around are te elved It will not I se quite whether the tho erslon or of th the from the southern rn side aide of oC Kimberley not their concentration lit at some other point snore dangerous to the Sew New York Journal Yesterday made some extensive to the history ot of the tho world At last lut tb the British made l is In South Roberts and 01 tp t hu have the deadlock nt al the theIr A Ir river and It would t nat l be cur yr ing to hear Jar at an any moment of oC the ther r IH kf r 1 Rut nul that will bl be beI I a L rd SPier I part of the British job is II yet yett et ett t rise 1 |
