| Show or OF TilE WAil VAIt Cleveland Cleeland DenIer Dealer Now the forces of at the tn are hurrying to defend their own on tern tor tory The Free Iree StAte has hili been Invaded In force by the maIn ann army under nob Itoh nober er oiLs Unless his Is III checked lie he will be soon fOOn threatening the South can from Ih the Free State Line while the forces of af flutter Buller and White after brief time for recuperation flU cili take lake up the line or of march for tor PretorIa through the ot of defeats In 1881 1851 and or by way of at the Dunk passes pases to cooperate with Lord But Dut there Is n a sudden collapse of through Free Froe FreeState State defectIon the march tu to Pretoria will be no Sonic Some of the most formidable natural defenses hare yet to tobe be passed r Worcester Gazette What the next Important move moe will willbe willbe be Is problematical Roberts force torce haM baa already come In contact wIth the tho new Doer arm army that Is assemblIng and there will evidently be some Mome sharp lighting ho he reaches Jl It Is doubtful It the Doers Boors make a long and determined stand at nn any point In the Free State however The They are more likely to make their second line or of lie de tense a changeable one anti and wait willI until they ther fall back on the Valli aal river before they mIke make their grand stand Milwaukee Wisconsin So much ha has Ln said about the tie de of the lie moil modem ern rifle dot duro Ing thIs progress of the war In Cuba find and the existing war In South Africa that It iS Interesting to note that the Revue a French arm army pubU catl cation n takes take the view that the doe true of the moil modern ern military rifle decides battles so 10 quickly that it I pee Ire vents heavy y aggregate losses Thu I ii probably true as 8 the losses suffered by bythe tIM the troops In South AfrIca have till nU been In comparatively shout short but extremely hot engagements nt so far RS as and rapid fIeld battery lire are concerned Chicago It not escape notice that the lilt of User Doer cap captured lured at Pur Paar deberg includes besides Ides lea Oen Cronje several men are most mOlt deeply In In the Beer cause anti have hAe been betm strong factors In the defense derene of the republic Con Cronje himself was WAIl a member of the Doer Boor council acting ns as superintendent of at natives anti and unlike Joubert It I is saId rather favored a war poll policy C Commandant J 1 M I A Wol Vol mamas mAran another prisoner has hal been con conspicuous In the history ot cit the nal on account ot of his personal relation to the dynamite monopoly whIch has been n a burning question In Johannesburg Boston Dolton Transcript In forecasting the future ot of the under British administration It must be borne born In mInd that tIters thue are areno areno no insuperable In the way a ot of the Dutch and the Briton getting lIon along verr comfortably together as BritIsh subjects The Tho two races may bIer II a good deal and may even eVl break up Into rival camps In a but that they will not II at each threats hI has b been b by th the Colony olony In the war now In progress New York Evening Sun Thus Lent Is IB In n a posItIon to converge with two armies on t tsin n one advancing along the river and the tho veldt and amI timing its movement by the pro progress reu of the theother theother other the tho southern pushing Its wn way along the railway At Atthe the pOint of at contact thre may he be a great hattie or tue floors r ml may think dl discretion rellon the better rt of valor and retire on where the defensive te conditions are laid te be superior The possession ot of the entire railway south ot of fan fail Int Inta Lord llOro hands and his hili base would fould be changed from Cram to th Orange rl river tor mar mey lOOn be confronted b by nn an arm army a as laras riff so II hIs own OtI anti and bearing down on hit loris lomg af f s No doubt It Itis is II UR the 1 need Deed of oth other railway lInes run north that Gen I to and I Ue the ad vanes vallee to anil beyond It I Ib Is Isby b by no DO that thomm the Rita I wrt oid d k long q may Le be cut tut I somewhere mid an ln bb be the theater r the shifting ene of at battle Spokane Spokesman In th ol operation of lr the British In South At has hili been i the Int in t fil The arrival of hI he It French at atI I was a In England I as al well as In the laager langer of CronJe Cronie The march of Lore Lord Roberts army to the Madder river was lIa unexpected and Its achievements were due to the tho ot of the Don Boor bureau of Information Chicago fh rho British war chico to pour troops Into South AfricA lit at the Iho rate ot of 1000 men 1 a 1 It lies over there already It evi en dently to smother floors and at the some time present to Europe an object lIMon lesson on the equipment and of n a vast ut volunteer army We rejoice In this exhibition be because Clue cause It demonstrates that the olun teen system Hlen which prevails prevail only In the United Status and In the United King Ing tom Oem II 15 of to meet beyond the resources of thO natIons where conscription Is for tor forever ever devourIng the vital energies of the leOPle |
