Show GEN FRENCHS DEFEAT BOER BUGLERS POOLED THE new york jan A dispatch to tho new york tribune from london says gen bullers opportunity for an c display of strategy has come and it ia to be hoped not too late the hussary hussars and the battery ot field artillery for which he has been waiting while ladysmith Lady smith was in deadly peril aro now at the front and he has every available man gun and mule gen joube arts army is making a belated and desperate attempt to carry ladysmith Lady smith by incessant bombardment and a deliberate and persistent attack in front according to the latest news from ladysmith Lady smith what the emergency requires is a cautious and rapid yet tar sighted plan of operations like that adopted by wellington in the penin sula there may be another reverse if the tactics of 56 previous battle are repeated but a decisive victory may be expected with confidence if gen buller does not attempt to do a weeks work during a single day and has the patience and skill tor far afield turning the position and cutting oft his retreat northward and westward no british general since waterloo has ever had so brilliant an opportunity or so pressing a need for delivering a series of rapid find effective blows by which the en my may be paralyzed and demoralized in the course of a single week yet the english public la so unaccustomed to campaigns with turning movements and on a large abalo that there will be dejection and clain rs it a complete victory is not an iwens iw unS as a result ol 01 the first days fighting veterans at the military clubs were intensely anxious over the news from ladysmith Lady smith and borne of them commented adversely upon the apparent lack of operation cooperation co between buller and white at the critical biages ot the campaign although they were in dally communication with each other gen white was passive on december 15 when berf buller attacked the enemy in full force at colenso and there wag nothing really effective done cm saturday on the tugela although word was received at frere camp as early as that the boers were making a most determined assault upon in anticipation of the general advance ot the main british army early this week these comments had a sterner even angrier tone toward midnight when the war office gave out another bulletin from buller with two hours later news from white it was brief but terribly to the point the boer attack baxi been renewed on saturday afternoon as gen white had apprehended and he was very hard pressed those were the worst words which had yet flashed out of the darkness of lady the veterans at the clubs shook theair heads ominously and bluntly declared that gen buller had put off the great baille too long gen french reported the situation at colenburg colesburg Co unchanged on saturday but gen forestier walker in a bulletin issued last night by the war office gave an unpleasant account of what was described with official euphemism as an accident pour companies of the first suffolk were cent at night to attack the enemy on a low bill one mile from their camp col watson who was in command was wounded after ordering the troops to charge and the bugle call tor a retreat was sounded apparently by the boers themselves a trick which has been played before during the campaign three companies retreated to ahe camp in good order but the fourth was caught behind surrounded by tle enemy and seventy men including seven officers were taken prisoners the british warship thetis it Is reported has arrived at durban with the german liner herzog in tow the latter vessel according to a brussels telegram was conveying german dutch and belgian ambulances tor the boers |