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Show Ttocr Campaigning, lots reports from South Africa show Ihi recent raids orf the Urltlsh lines In in eter more favorablo llfcbt. The Drltlib hud all the advantages of Interior In-terior lines, of established bases ot uppllea, aud of at least partially fortified forti-fied weamps. Their lines In general, extosd from tho Orange river north-wart north-wart along the railway 400 mllca to PrnMrla. cast from Pretoria through tnoWranavnal 250 miles to Komatl-poort, Komatl-poort, on tho Portuguese border, foulbeast from Johannesburg along no railway through tho pass at Lalng s Nek to Lndysmllh a distance of nearly near-ly 200 miles, then west from Lady-erolUi Lady-erolUi through tho Drakensburg passes to Bethlehem Military men looking at the situation a month ago would uavs said that It would bo worse than madness for a forco of 10 000 or 15 000 men to attempt to break these lines lu' It Is clear now that the Door commanders organized a campaign to disturb tho Urltlsh. not at one point, but at several They attacked the British position thirty or forty miles west of Pretoria In such force as to trlng on ono of tho most spirited bat-tl bat-tl of the war |