| Show J t The capitulation or of aen CronJe I now t 1 mt Is to the Important Ot t lIy by bythe Ih the the too took on the anniversary day ot of the bill hili And while the Hoer a da day of oC prayer antI and In In of that battle CronJe le 18 Charged with unnecessary ry cruelty l r rIn In ing the fIrst rat war lr for Cor lie lieIs lieis Is accused or of t 1 Eng theft mien at that time b wIth wIthholding Ith holding from Crom them the now or of nn an Mice and lo the humiliation of ft Now he aster a tibet moel I I Mil to la lay down own his arms Is II thit Inertly r is III It an anether ether case MJe dl end and The tiow aChieved fl Ms i been 1 l d Tim 1 o iz of Lord Roberts army armr him to lO divide hi and nd yet caTty on opera op at separate Probably CronJe stayed too In the ot of I It If he had haa broken ur UI 4 11 day earlier tie hi PhI have bave had maple time to g got t away It I Is easy now to understand the or of his desperate resistance lie He would delay Lord all as Ien ac 1111 po possible In order to gIve thu h time to 10 concentrAte and probably somewhere Anti ml thia t Every Bor Everything thing that II a great root number of mn men have haI escaped 1 anti joined d the But th his loss ot at In If tl loss of bi army Is no probability that the war will cad with this capitulation Those Thole 1 th tho forma formation of the country ex expect t that the scene ot of opera now Still be the hills north of r the Iree State the moon moun tam passes where small forceS toreS luce oppose large Jarp armies The war from Crom now on may assume the tho phil phase It wits Wit thought It would hf have from Crom the beginning Intense Inter been centered In Inthe Inthe the heroic struggle ut of Gen Oen CronJe the overwhelming force around aroundhim him CronJe has been called d the tho lion ot of Africa and he ha long been known as a toaster of at military strategy CronJe was 11 actively engaged In the tho war or of Independence At Al that tuat time he defeated f II a British force torce at and It is III said that the tho skill with whIch he d the enemy attracted the tho notice or of 1 mill experts It dU the tho time of th the Jameson raid Crun le Jo agaIn b became me The nUll were opposed I by thle general whoso whose strategy anti rUle fire rOved too much for or them It Wn stas CronJe who accepted their and who guar l t ed the tho lives live of oC Jameson and his men although many ot of the Hoer com commanders demand demanded ed that they be treated as criminal In the present Cronje the siege at Mafeking anI and then Went yent JrP hr lit at the Tugela river ho he made mallo mallon madea n a trip to J lit at and ana no doubt n it plan r campaign was R then agreed upon of which the present retreat from all the cities Is a part It Is remarkable that the tho Ja In their retreat have hac themselves us us good soldiers as the they have done In the their r defense of posItions In every respect they thoy have shown them olves eulves worthy opponents ot of British valor and chivalry The delay Cronje was Us makIng In the onward march of Gen Cen Joubert Ute the needed opportunity ot of e establIshIng him himself self lilt In 1 a IK trout frum whicH ho cannot soon lie be dislodged l |
