Show WAR NEWS new york jan 30 advises advices from london indicate that military associates of general white are ot the opinion that he will make a desperate attempt to break through the boer lines and escape from that though such a movement would cost a tremendous sacrifice ot life it would in preferable to surrender to the boers alic statement that lord roberts advised the abandonment of ig not generally credited in london but in view of the fact that the supply 0 provisions will not hold out for isdoro than n besk longer it is not probable that any aid can bo rendered ta general white inside of that time and ho will have but two courses open surrender or cut way out several military experts in london are of the opinion that the british in kim at modder river and on the tugela will also be left to work out own salvation one critic says As to an advance northward aln ough the arco state if as appears l tho british commander has u keep nearly an of bullers army on tho line of the tugela a new army will havo to make the advance on there Is no disguising fact that tho imperial forces in south africa are not strong enough at present to undertake this advance with safety the dally telegraph says it is a terrible alternative when we have to balance against each other the safety of the brave men in the beleaguer ed camp and the only rational policy of carrying on tho war it has to be without sentiment or unavailing regret the daily mail says such a move auld not be made with sufficient shoed to save it would seem that tho soundest military principles dictate the reinforcement of our army in natal and a fresh advance this time in ample force there are two dangers to be guarded against foreign intervention and further military disaster in south atri cd to prevent tho first the whole army should bo mobilized and the naval reserves called out our squad ecna should be distributed in the pro PCs position for war the volunteers should be put under arms and provided with transport and artillery the remnant of militia should bo embodied A force of at least one hundred thousand men over and above the volunteers militia is required to supply our gooral needs in south africa if it bo raised on terms of voluntary ao alce wo must have drafting as in abe united states during the civil war the london post says there is a il bior that general kitchener or lord has left cape town already to dalre command of a movement by gen Gati acres and general franchs frenchs Frenc hs ambi nod forces with heavy additions ef fresh troops against the orange breo state e defeat is bitter but it is right to face it while it la wrong to keep the from ourselves the meeting of the defense committee on saturday was probably caused by a knowledge of clen ballera Bu llera defeat though the fact flaa kept the public until sunday the measures now urgently needed ato development of tho military resources of tho country with abton in the field and to follow the moment has come to push on abc training of all troops left at homo attie leader says the enemy has beaten at tho sticking game he has beaten us in strategy tactics and ha lias induced us to give up the first atan he would have hardly had a show and to conform to this plan alere naturally everything is against us Is there a single soldier who can justify what we have done on other chian political principles not one vb know from hia own pen that general white was induced by one of mr deputies to disastrously ciranek hla plan we know that general buller after working up to the original plan of marching on bloam fonteen font eln was persuaded by somebody IS give it up and he waa persuaded three days that is a pretty problem for parliament to whet its on the opening days london jan 30 the thing on which seems agreed is that more mcm must go twenty thousand two andred and twenty two men and effans are at sea eleven thousand in dautry and cavalry including yoot nen are practically ready to em therefore the government without doing more can place at the disposal of lord roberts additional men and guns the further of the war office officials are supposed to embrace somewhere la the neighborhood of men As the indication is that candidates be rather scarce the war office issue orders for those reservists were found unfit at the previous examination to report for farther examination applicants tor cavalry service are etall freely offering aa yeomanry yoo manry gen ballera Bu llera operations have cost men GO far officially reported with it ten days applying to the scion spion kop casual tica reported yesterday the ale of proportion the losses of officers indicated ia casualties yet to come the total casualties of the war oom paled from official reports are nearly a division of these 2486 are wounded and the rest arc pric onera the aggregate British home troops in africa number the na tallan and cape colonists A special dispatch from frere camp friday january 26 p m aya 1 I have just ridden in here betins left gen bullers forces in the new positions south of tugela to irlich they retired a consequence of afao reverse at scion spion asp the fighting both before and after the occupation of the was of a desperate character kop la a precipitous mountain over topping the whole line of kopjes along the upper tugela on the eastern side the mountain faces mount alice and pot drift standing at right angles to the boer central position and lyt tl etona advanced position the southern point descends in abrupt steps to the lower line of kopjes on the western side opposite the right outposts of warrens force it is inaccessibly steep until the point where the nek joins the kop to tho main range then there Is a gentle slope which allows easy access to the summit the nek was strongly held by the boers who also occupied a heavy fiur parallel with the kopie kopje where the enemy was concealed in no fewer than thirty five nafle pits and was thus enabled to bring to bear upon the men a damaging cross fire the only possible point tor a british attack being the southern side with virtually sheer precipices on the left and right in a narrow toot path admitting men in single file only to the cummi opens into a perfect flat table land probably of square yards area upon which the boers had hast ly commenced to make a transverse trench our men were able to occupy tho further end of this table land chero the ridge descends to another fiat which was again succeeded dy a round eminence held by the bers in great strength the ridge held by our men ws w s faced by a number of strong little kopjes at all angles whence the bora bo ra sent a concentrated fire from their rifles supported by a maxim norden feldt and a bis long range gun what with the rifles the machine guns and the big gun the summit was converted into a perfect hell the shells exploded continually in our ranks and the ride alre from an absolutely unseen enemy was perfectly appalling reinforcements were hurried up by gen warren but they had to cross a stretch of flat ground which was literally torn up by the flying load of the enemy the unfinished trench on the summit gave very questionable shelter as the machine guns were BO accurately trained upon the place that often sixteen shells fell in the trench in a single minute mortal man could not permanently hold such a position our gallant fellows held it tenaciously for twenty tour hours and then taking advantage of the dark night abandoned it to the enemy new york jan 30 speaking of the south african war brigadier general J C breckinridge inspector general of the army said last night the situation Is generally what even body ought to have anticipated aben the war began the english have undertaken the subjugation of a body of god fearing frontiersmen who know how to take care of themselves in tho open and overcome the obstacles of nature and bow to handle their weapons and who are as fearless abc any white men living besides they are so distant from england that time becomes a matter of first importance and the british government is now undergoing der going the same experience it did with our ancestor though probably biffi greater difficulties la the present case as the points of assault are further from the seacoast which is her channel of communication in our case at the close of the sec bonfi war for independence as we used to call it probably no nation ever had a morn instructive battle than the english experienced under pakenham and gabba at now orleans when they met general jackson there they marched directly upon the position assumed by frontiersmen for defence who withheld their fire until the efemey was ear the discharge of their rifles wiped away tho british lines the boera pursued similar tactics tor I 1 notice they waited until the enemy were within yards when they opened fire the tactical requirements of the situation actuating day by day prevent an absolute judgment being passed upon what induced a movement on any particular day in general terms it seems that no general under the conditions and armaments existing on modem battlefields is entitled to anticipate victory unless he lias a positive instinct for the ene meys flank and in this case general buller after first striving to pierce the center has made some effort to turn bis left and without success this of course is purely tactical whether it will bu advisable to engage in further tactical manoeuvres or make an attempt to solve the problem by a operation is a matter that can only be wisely decided upon the ground when the english wore so far away the boers with rare wisdom for they are the minority as compared with the great power of england though they were then the majority on the spot seized tho initiative and england has ever been compelled to respond not that she desired to do eo it was and la compulsory alie burghers are a religious race brought up free and independent and the only way to dominate them is to whip them individually to capture their capital Is of less consequence than it their country were an empire new in reply to a telegraphic request views aa to the war in south africa general john M schofield late commander of tho army of the united states send tho following telegram to the herald from st augustine fla the british situation in south africa is serious because of the original faulty operation by which the force at became shut up in that place instead of joining the re coining from the rear the result may be the sacrifice of the earr earrion lon of but even in that eventa the boers will have paid dearly for their success the present failure to penetrate the doer lines was to have been expected the british will probably now organize a separate army strong enough to penetrate the boer territory by another line and thus turn the boer position about but the final result is not to he reached by capturing one or even many of tho positions but a long series of hard fought battles in which superior numbers and ought finally to prevail it is a battle between heroes who will fight it out to tho finish I 1 the colored baptists of washington who celebrated the birth of the aleth century the other day arc an titled to the thanks of emperor WI llari and editor kohlsaat |