| Show or Jg t ago N I What the tho ci t or of thIs reverse will be x Upon the floors remains to be seen e n They were vere evidently surprised b by Lord brilliant and successful move ot of invasion possibly may result The however Is that the war after the tho termination ot of the tho siege of eIther by lI its relief or tM the withdrawal ot of the tho tore forces will VIII to the tho defensive Eory vory day that Cronje lucid nob at bay 15 to the If It has been used wisely In their troops and preparing to resiSt realm the tho ot of the upon There Is reason reMan to be believe belleve lieve that the secret of the tho hi r resist aflee nt at drift was wall determination to give sho Ills his countrymen the tho needed time this change In inthe the tho plans ot of their campaign There does doca not seem to have hass been any deter determined mined millet effort to cut through the tho British lines nut the gallant little band In the tho the Modder river Son San Francisco Call There Is 18 hardly a parallel In the hll tor tory ot of campaigns to the address Mil and endurance the tho courage and spirit of at Cronje and his mm men Ills retreat from Kimberley was begun with ox teams The pursuit wu was with caval cavalry and mounted infantry and the host hest horse trains Yet his hla rearguard held back men until lie he hail had covered more than halt half the tho distance to and when ho he was to bay nt at the pursuit was I checked until he built buill such Buch defenses that the fire ot of B a hundred cannon Incessantly maintained day dbY antI and nIght caused od but little damn dam damn cure n e lie sole sote military utility to the thel British was wail that It prevented a further uncovered movement forward While he sheltered his force froni British shells Lord Lont Robetta force kept well nn from range ot of the hue rifles In the ot of the tho Doer sharpshooters booten and made no approach to the Molder Madder bed except In the burrows bored by tho anti miners Spokane Spokesman elew The theo theory Is fanciful that CronJe hal had to 10 sacrifice his arm army to enable other Doer forces to rally call The hoer general ought to have hau slipped away In III and hurried to hits prearranged rca ren the retiring lied beb carefully planned out and a strong and well con constructed constructed were ert awaiting him and Ut l bean thello his arm or of or men could have stood off art any force torce that Roberts could have havo brought has hns lily n against him Crone tronie permitted to be out He was WIl CAught In a trap and nd forced to turn lit at bay from a position ot of strategic weak weRk weakness ness St SI Paul Press There are few fow who Imagine how howver ver that the recent success of the British will do more mere than bring the tho end of the war nearer l ruger Is not like Ilke the tho chess player with Rn an opponent stronger than him himself self soU havIng exchanged n a and castle for tor two or three thre defeat to be Inevitable in eight or ten moves mons and gracefully lie He must play thu game gamo through to n a amate matoi mate So humanity mu must t be greed gl a rood good deal more and bravo men must be In numbers on both sides before the issue hall be de tided Ii I South Africa to be nil all Bril lab Ish or all Boor ChicagO Great Britain justified In te feeling lInt that the victor m rk a turning point In the he wal suar and o ni an outlook toward I ultimate mate It is r regrettable ble in III view of Great Orent position as one uno ot of the foremost of Civilized powers that the first fint expression of grat I should Ix be an n expression ot of alp vengeance and exultation at the paying ort off of at on an old oid score Superior The surrender Is uncondItional anh will exert nert n a moral Influence In South Africa Ills 1119 fofO Is i estimated to tobe be from to men It wn was thought that he held nn an impregnable position and had plentY ot of provisions This success following so soon utter atter the relief rond ot of hM has put the tho BritIsh h UpOn unon their fel and the con Is nol nou general rennal that the war will he t nailed In Ute the month o olar of lar l Perhaps one pitched baWl battle will havo to be fought near betie the tho Doers will 11 sue suo for tor peace San Francisco Chrol cle It Is too soon to speculate as to the of the surrender on the course of at the war Nil Naturally it Il will deres time the Boors Boers t hut It zany may also stimulate then them to otter more deter determined ruined mined resistance to BrItish h ot of their territory The rapid formation of ofa n a second line ot of d defense In the Free FrN FreeState State BI M as the base Is being reported Still there are J persist eat fit rumors ruger Is being urged to sue Rue tor peare Steyn or of the F Free State is 18 II eald ld to b be among those urging this course Perhaps Europe will attempt t to r vein nl It ma may hi aC as a torl foregone one conclusion lon that all 1111 the Rote Roer commandos III Cane Colony wilt wll bl be withdrawn its lIS quickly at as oth otherwise Ie thos tho M at and are liable to tobe bl be between en the of Gal Gat uric and as the major part vart ot of the command ot of th the latter be befree befree free now nov to operate anywhere he do de sIres alrea leoria The memory of If 1111 will M ncr or 1 die ns as long IonIC an there I Is It Dutchman In South but inseparably eon con with It will wll be the sorrowful memory of oC the surrender of CronJe at |
