Show GEN BULLERS DEFEAT the news of the defeat ol 01 general buller was a great surprise the great british general of whom so much was expected was reported to have relieved Ladys roith and he receipt of the rumor had set all london ringing with gladness the members of the stock exchange dancing with joy and shouting themselves hoarse so the dispatches said but now close on the heels of that balse report cornea the doleful message from buller himself announcing the capture of eleven of his guns and the retreat from the tugela of three divisions of his army when gen gatacre lost men at the consolation wag wait till buller moves when gen methuen fell back from in front of gen cronje the balsam left was buller will retrieve the lost laurels buller has acted and the story is told in defeat and in the meantime gen white at is in desperate straits surely these are not bright days for chamberlain and his war party who precipitated a struggle that they little thought would strain great britaina Brit ains credit and the nation ot the of its army there are over a hundred thousand british soldiers in south africa and yet there is a call tor more and the sixth and seventh alons are mobilizing or en route to cape town all the nobility or nearly so are in mourning and the queen Is in tears chamberlain Is execrated and he war office and this es to indicate what president kruger said when the war was being forced that the cost of the war in money and men would stagger mankind gen buller then thought differently ferent ly when bidding the queen bye be assured her he would eat christmas dinner in pretoria and gen methuen addressed his luggage to pretoria via kimberley they little realized at the time what a desperate task they had before them otherwise they well concealed their fears over two months have gone by since the tiring of the first gun and the history of the struggle in brief is this gen symons killed gen yule in retreat gen white besieged at ladysmith Lady smith gen held in kimberley col baden koweil surrounded at oen bilyard cut off at gen heavy loss at bel i gen heavy loss at pan gen Met huens bloodiest battle at modder d 1 l gen gatacre defeated at oen methuen hurled back north of modder gen buller defeated at the tugela |