| Show I Gi It seems to bo be tho the fate tate ot of men mei me en entrusted trusted with armies or navies In times of great crent crises to have to run the tho gauntlet among their at af afterwards for tor what they have said gald and done while In the discharge rge of ot their du duo dutieS ties Now General huller Duller has raised a IJ storm of ot Indignation against himself In Int England t by b admitting that after atter his reverses at Colenso he thought of ot ad advising advising Jon Gen White to surrender Lady Ladysmith smith and had prepared a 11 message to I IMm him Mm to that effect London papers are but voicing voi public sentiment In Advising him to resign his position p In the tho th army They Thoy Tho say la the tho sur surrender surrender surrender render of ot Ladysmith would have havo been beena a 11 humiliation compared with which all nil alloth oth othu r reverses reverIes of Ct the tho war would have hare been bem trivial Anti And yet the th progress of ot the War var proved pretty prett conclusively that it was wal the direct march of ot a 11 sufficient British force toward Pretoria that finally I brought relief to Ladysmith General Huller Duller may mo not be much of a speaker nI he ho may mil not understand how to give his bl Ideas IMal a n form palatable to tho the public but the events that followed the Iho ap appearance appearance of Lord Roberts upon the scene suggest that If it the tho British had hod hodnot hadnot not at the outset featured their forces force In attempts at holding unimportant po JO positions they would sooner coonor have hare become the muter masters of the tho field At any rate It Il Is II Idle now to con condemn condemn the 1110 generals vho Jho were tent sent to south Bouth Africa under the impression that they with a 11 few f v thousand soldiers soldier could triumphantly march to Pretoria The Impression was a wrong The public had been 11 deceived and many ot of toe first Ort disasters were due to thU mistake The mc Tb strength of ot th WAt under underestimated 1 estimated h I te and nd Great Ortt Britain paid lib Ill f orally In time money and nil nd Hoed to tu find out the truth on this point And yet after this expensIve lesson isson the l iti Is peculiar Even today the Doer Boer commandoes s are arc according to a correspondent of at the tho London Times rimes perfectly able to destroy the thC th trains on which Lord L rd Kitchener relict relics for tor supplies for tor his army That they thoy Co thu 10 not do tb to O se seems m to de tie depend pond pend on a tacit understanding between tho the Doer Boero and tho the British so extraordinary extraordinary that hot It Is to t credit though In the London Times The cor correspondent correspondent respondent says The floors Boers know perfectly well that thata a permanent damage to the tho railway communication would mean starvation for or their wives w c and ond families They also know that the lie of the he concen concentration ration vamps camps III liS would be he allowed to starve tom first tho the army afterwardS afterward There have many cases nse during durin the last months month of ot the var when ing lug commandoes while deliberately de do destroying the line JIM In order to secure sup supplies S p plies of arms arena and ami ammunition for tor themselves havo have allowed the supply trains for tho the concentration camps to pass unmolested In fact tact certain sec seo Clans of ot tho the line have been baon kept upon open by b nn on course without official tho the tl ing commandoes It has hns been b on an nn un understood condition between drivers unit and guards and the tho that as all nil certain supplies such ruckus as all cot cof coffee cotIe cottee tee fee Ie sugar and flour were dropped dro at ata a certain convenient spot on the tho line that particular section of ot the line should not be bp tampered with And the there e burghers never nver once broken when tho the conditions have bare been complied compiled with It If this Is 18 true now utter otter th the war has been declared ended it If l i evident o ent that at n t the beginning of ot the contest the British faced a foice force of ot which they Mil hail almost no comprehension If It blunders and errors were the result no wonder But Dut the tho campaign has been carried on with success Old man KruTer who wh knew whereof he ho was speaking said the th war would be waged at nt a n cost colt ito to stagger humanity and no one orie should be surprised If It that comes comel true The better way WilY would bo be to look for tor an honorable exit from tr m the sanguinary stage before the price yet ot to be paid becomes become still more stag staggering gering goring from the standpoint of ot humane humana civilization |
