Show Thu Alt 1 I IX I mo 1 It II now a r the ment of 01 tb the South war The at In which the lOng mtr list were compelled to retreat took on the or of October 1301 Today the conflict I practically na ed General Dewet Dewel Is II still lUll in III the Odd and General Hotha ii refused to sur surrender render but their forces are Their ammunition Ia I nearly exhausted and Ind their tactics are to gum guer ma lila warfare Kruger ha has left lell the coun country try and lord Roberts Robert I hi 10 full rull posse 1011 It he has taken Onset a year r to overcome the AfrIcan toe foe but ahe ha nevertheless succeeded The result u as regards Great is II much more than Ihan can be beju judged ju from the strength and stag of the subdued adversary Had ot Grist BrItaIn failed her South African colon lea I would have been lI lost Th Thu der would Ita have triumphed over I Ithe the empire And od the effect or of title this might hUe have been fh tell felt throughout the world Tile The British victory vIetor means 1 a ot the colonies with the British Isles It Is also allO a lesson to the European powers ot of the strength ot of Crest In the hour ot of danger For Por It must be apparent ent to them that the forces that M has tined to AfrIca at the sell U ot of gO got emmett from Asia Ia from Australia from as wn an al from the Isles would again to united ac action action tion In vastly Irater numbers From this point of view 11 the tho WAr deplorable as a It was WIS may be worth It its I cost COlt to the th conquerors I |