Show 1 HULUm ASO ti NO New Now York World Gen Oen hullers Bullers confession that ho act actually did dill advise the surrender of ot Lady Ladi Ladysmith Ladysmith smith the holding of oC which was vet per hops haps the bent beet achievement scored core by British arms In South Africa haslet alt all Britain with lIh resentment I the government organs ori advise him t resign his recent appointment as na com coni commander manGer mander or of tho first l army ormy corps Doston Dos ton Transcript This Is III a surprising admission We may admire Bullers candor and chival chivalrous chivalrous rous roul readiness to tell teU the tho truth nna anu save savo others but we must consider him himas himas as all a II man physically bravo but mental ly Iy timid bravo In battle but easily daunted by the time difficulties of ot the cam campaign campaign and taking his first check with tragic Intensity The Tho surrender ot at Ladysmith would have been a disaster of the time first magnitude to the British In I crests In Africa It might not have IIno been the tho Yorktown of the struggle but to have averted the full tull consequences of oC such Buch a u surrender military and anti ical leal would have been a task compared with which that thal Great Britain now has line hason hason lineon on her hands may be bo deemed deeme 1 trivial Boston Doston Herald It H has hils been more than once acknowledged acknowledged edged that the tho British army authorities made a n serious mistake in locating an nn Important military station at Lady Ladysmith smith The town was WIlS not well for Cor defensive purposes and was as ex ox experience proved BO sq situated as nl to make the lie giving of It relief rell f a task of or dous difficulty The Tho retention or aban of this place that Gen Ceo Sir George White Whit could abandon It without too great loss was largely largel a n matter ot of sentiment As It was as Gen Gem huller Duller wasted months of oC time and anti In Incurred Incurred Incurred enormous losses es In men and ma materials In endeavoring to relieve r a II roll mil Itar station which was as of no value to them when tho the enemy had been driven away awa New York Evening Sun If IC wo we 0 concede that In suggesting sur cur surrender surrender render to Gop Gen White Sir Redvers Bui Dul ler len was wal ready rendy to assume the bI I It what are wo we to o think of ot his long silence about the tho matter For almost two years Cars he Ito has hns allowed the public to draw the Inference that bo ho had been unjustly accused It Is charitable to suppose that Gen Oen Duller Butler was WitS Irresponsible sible Ible Ills JUs offhand comment that It was Willi ns a 11 mean menn thing to send en 1 a n fellow Cello certainly has a n flippant sound pound soun 1 Ills in difference to tho the dead ho left lett behind on Kop tho Boers burled them with his also be cited ns as evidence that lint he lacked sensibility Whit What hat confirms con the estimate of Gen Incapacity Is la the absurd con can concel celt cel about hi his hIli powers which he line has al always always ways displayed lie Ho capped It n In his speech on Thursday when he challenged his critics to name Mine any officer of ot In tenor rank who was wu fitter titter to command an army corps St Paul Pioneer Press Prue To have advised all the surrender of oC Iud the papers say ay was a II stupendous blunder all the other re to reverses verses cres were trivial t rh 1111 In comparison to the humiliation ho he contemplated No doubt It would have severely wounded British pride but It tt tho the general opinion of ot military critics at the tho time that the radical blunder of ot the campaign was DS the diversion lon of DC the main strength ot of the tho British army arm ann with Its awful waste of oC time and anti blood In the tho attempt tn to ti re to reo hove by the advance through Natal that It would have been far better to have hul left I dy to lo Its It fate and concentrated the British strength on the more direct line of ad Rd advance adVance vance toward Pretoria from Cape Cope Col I onh northward |