Show ml IN SOUTH AFRICA q Situation ThereS There on cn from Various q Points of View LONDON N War Will Not be br June Jane Late LaD Capture or of Troops Discussing use the Campaign Early Buly New erk April dispatch to the Tribune from London says 18 The game gamo of counter stroke hu been played on both beth aides ld with U General Methuen has entrapped a bod body ot of Boere near D shot surrounding them Gild and taking after a fight lIle force In Included the imperial yeomanry whose exploit will be a pOpular one In laud where great gNat interest h has been taken In this bod body or of rough rider and crack shots hots The were neat neatly 1 ly Iy equal on both eld a apart oUt trona the prisoners GEN This throws throw little lI lIght ht upon tile the mysterious operations which Oen end Methuen has been conducting north or of It Indicates th the facility with whIch the can ean adapt to the guerilla war warfare ar rare fare Into whIch the Doer tactics are rapidly degenerating General who wu was killed on 01 the Beer side Ilde was military adviser In Natal end and was 18 engaged b by Dr lAds i at the outbreak or of the wor nisi Ills record in the French army arany was brillIant and Dr Leyds made nn an excellent invest Int investment ment In scouring hi his n lie had been In 11 the French war and staff college and was chief of staff In the Algerian army Jo noh have hae consIdered that hll hla abilities were over overrated overrated rated but he had been most useful to the IJ Doer r generals In Natal NatalIn In showing them how they could adapt their tactics to new conditions or of war warfare rare fare He was VOl the best foreign expert on the side Ilde and his death Is a serious blow especially as the Doer Beer have loot loet two IWo of their but best and Cronje It h lie suggested the new volley policy ot of counter attack upon the linN lines ot of the tho British communication at as has haa been reported he Ita ha fallen a victim or of his own on tactics The Boors Dorl have havo followed up their suo cese celli sit at ICons Korn by a similar stroke aimed amed against General Roberts line ur of communications JI OVERESTIMATING DOER NUM The new tactics tactic toll owed by the hoer have a 0 dispiriting upon the thoughtless ob observer vho sho had bad fancied that the war Will was over our but Veterans In the service are not by them nor alarmed Absurd estimates printed by nl al newspaper or of the or of tM the Doer Boer raiders are rejected III li ir des oles as unworthy ene I Instead ad ador or of ha having men nd In s to Invest nl the hoer Boers am not flot believed by ca cautious lou ox or pert to have hat more than or 7 OO burghers inaction In the north was waa fatal to them and they were forced to adopt now new tactics and attempt I a series serie or of counter attacks Veteran rue are that has haa not been done before p ld hat General Roberta Oen On Dul lines line of communIcation hive not been repeatedly raided d They add that thaI the Doer having discovered bower how of i teethe these tactics tactic are will continue to make use ule or of them In swooping down here and there upon Isolated garrisons and stations It is II readily admitted that they have the power ot of harassIng and harrying Gen Roberts Roberta army anny In inthis this way and ot of retarding Its advance but the view taken In circles Is that the reinforcements which have been pouring Into South Africa during the last two months will 11 speedily en enable enable able the British army to take the or of offensive and dra draw V ore ott the Doers Doer from the southern section of the F Free e State General Duller Inaction lanot is not un understood by military men here and the opinion Is expressed that Warrens dl vision Islon will be ordered to the thc Free FreeState FreeState State The Ashanti outbreak Is considered Inopportune but not or of serious meg mag magnitude TO BEL TIlE port Thursday April detachment or of hUl who were pro proceeding hence to are re ic ported to have been detrained at Eldin Edin Edinburg burg burK about aboul 35 15 mil miles southwest or of Red burg In the Orange Free dispatched to the assistance ot of the Irish era captured 1 near nar TOOK roo 00 PRISONERS London April 7 J a a word regarding the disaster at Redder Redden burg has hilI been allowed d to come through except the of Lord Roberts It II therefore to form torm any notion as to what has haa happened Mean MeanWhile MeanWhile While the public Is I b beginning to realize the Immense difficulties to be overcome even enn before fore Pretoria I Is reached amt is II reviving premature Ideas with to the tho time timo when the war will be over oer No one believes believe now nolY that It will have by the b bI be beginning I ginning ot of June The latest disaster r snore more illustrates the heavy task involved In holding the railway This Ihl body of some roo oo British troops without guns which dl disappeared red so 0 completely within thir miles mile or of the great British ann army had for tor its bu to guard a section or of nearly ninety miles ot of railway be between between tween and 1 U itt It could be thus spirited awn away hOw I Roberts to his hili Ally naT LONDON Other pertinent questions question are being asked vC of the successive unfortunate urr The foremost is II why IP British troops It II 16 that It If this thle had been dens on eVen ayen U inca might have held out until reinforcements arrived It he be that the utmost alArm Is boo be to I be felt It is II said uld that the Doers who cap tUr the brItish at burr bo be belonged longed to it If so 10 h he has hili NIt net retired north and hop hopes ar are that he may Inay still be out cut off ott offIt It Is III asserted that rebels lur surn dared dered during Clement march northward The wilt will do their ut mast to hold and Thalia both being belne tuft A of the Post It at telegraphing Thurs Thurl day daYt says say he is II glad to be a able to report that thi increasing ar are taken III P patrolling the railway ralla Jt It Is said that most or of the prisoners at are arl foreigners The rho report that Mt Mr Steyn had bad bM been to the command ot of tb Lb Free StILle and the further rePOrt that hit the F Free Stat tate had arranged a loan from tIle for tor war purposes ar arboth are both Confirmed Tn Ten thou and remount rn from m South America ar are du duo to arrive during tb the coming week at puts pests or of Natal atal and Cape Colony DOOmS TAKE Another Doer version or of the fighting With Cot Co force says a that four olno and thirty men were ere taken pile onena at It ap appears elina that the names namn ot of Cecil and which w were re originally supposed to hull cal cate wo or of the captured It at the time should lIae been read together II as the name or of one As are siow held heldon on both side and the numbers number are about aut the question or of we wal mooted In the house hoult ot of commons last lut evening This elicited a reply that the government had no Intention or of proposing an exchange The correspondent of the Dall Daily telegraphing Thursday A says A seditious mooting meeting was as summoned by Transvaal emis emill series for today at but no nobody nobody body attended Dor patrols from hare hae out the telegraph wire Ires here and DIG Bm BOER The British scouts reported yester yesterday day that n a force torce or of from 1000 to bad been seen leen beyond moving from to the Iut The Tho enem enemy by Iy appeals and menaces combined are vainly trying to Indu Induce the burghers to take the itald eld again The farmers are more afraid or of the than or of the BrU Mr Spencer r Wilkinson the military situation In the Morning Post loet loetIa Ia says The hoer Doer strategy at present may have haTe on or more or of several aims The Idea or of cutting off all the British do de detachments is III natural and obvious So Sois is II the plan or of It at the railway south or of The plan ot of collecting a largo large force torce In the hills hili near nar Is more of a flank nank po position The theory of oC It itis is II that a strong trong Hoer Doer force here would threaten the British communications when hen the British advance I is resumed and therefore that Lord Roberts wIlt will have to attack and clear these hills bUll be before tore fore moving forward It If he be moves east to attack them the Doer forces from would move moo south against hi his The Idea is 18 sound BOund enough but Lord Roberts mil may a It welt well enough to avoid being drawn where the Doers Boers wish and to reply with a 0 counter move which mil may interfere the Doer Beer plans OUTSIDE The he correspondent or of the Morning Post telegraphing Thurs Thur Thursday day say las The Boers apparently making an to redeem their promise to retake A considerable force torce has haa moved moed south through Gen Tucker at Karee Caree is II more apparent than real since the open ground north of at offers olten small opportunity ty for tor hoer Doer tactics Th They y ma may poul possibly bly engage him to distract attention from operations elsewhere are anxiously awaited |