New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-18
THE ZULU CONFLICT.
PEACE STILL IN QUESTION.

""' fphbEss REPORTS.
PROV THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF rHE rRrBUNE.l
LONDON, August 4.-Whether the Zulu war be
be not ended is problem which the British news
paper press is actively endeavoring to solve. The
DATA are insufficient, but the process is the less
interesting; perhaps all the more so. People
al nrst little misled by that telegram in which SIR
Garnet Wolseley asked to be informed which regi-
ments were to be sent home first They interpreted
IL generally as meaning that tho victory at Ulund
was decisive victory. ventured to remark at the
time that it was rather political than military
dlspatchi was, in fact meant for homo
consumption, and designed to dazzle the
constituents with the bright prospect Of COM
ing peace. An able military writer now suggests
third explanation. He says that that telegram aud
the steps Sir Garnet is now taking to stop rein
torcements and send back troops, really indicate
that he considers the number of men sent out at
the request Of Lord Chelmsford, to have been alto
gether unnecessary. 1t is Tory writer who says
this 1t is in the leading Tory journal Of England
that he says it. And he addsi mot only were
they not wanted but they were a hindrnnce "-an
observation which is anything but complimentary
TO Lord Chelmsford.
To-day we have a weeks later news from the
Cape. 1t is not very clear or decisive but so far as
1t goes it tends to show that the overthrow of Getty
wayos power is far from being complete. The
substance of it is that number Of Zulu chiefs are
surrendering, but that the King has withdrawn with
the bulk OF his forces into district where it is not
intended to follow him, for the sufficient reason that
the district is practically inaccessible This dis
trct comprises at least one-half Of Zululaud What
Sir Garnet proposes now Is TO secure himself In the
other half by chain of forts strongly garrisoned,
and wait to see what turns M. He will not attack
Cetywayo, and he hopes Cetywayo will not attack
III ig vprU hp nj 90
halted the northern frontier of Georgia after the
Tennessee victories as if Sherman, instead Of taxi
ing Atlanta and marching to the sea, bad tele-
graphed to Washington that the war was over, and
demanded to know In what order the troops
should return to their various States. We
should not have thought that q great vic
tory, nor the war ended. But General Sherman
had not the advantage of private instructions from
such a master In the art Of war tho Prime Minister
who has passed the greater part Of his career in
more or less successful efforts to persuade the
British people that two and one makes four
Forbes says:
Military operations in the immediate future i'm
practicable. Sir Garnet WOlseley has no intention or
chewing Ceyway0 into the bush country beyond Aman-
zekwauze, could ne II he would The Zulu power is
broken by defeat aud defections but Getty Wayo while a
large, is still. IN sense. master OF the situation The
chiefs OF the coast up u st. Lucia Bay have either
IN stated their Intention TO do but they do
not constitute the martial heart OF Zuiuand.
MS ulSplJcn lS uaLeO OuIDau, July ii. LII suHlS
up the situation. Sir Garnet is dealing so far as he
can with separate chiefs, and as he says, with the
Zulu nation only; telling them that he has no in
tention of annexing their territory or meddling
with their ordinary customs, but that Cetywayo Is
now fugitive, and that his military system can
never be reestabhshed. Upon which Forbes makes
the pregnant comment that Cotywayo has never yet
been dethroned.- gain, one day later;
The policy Sir Garnet Wolseley ts adopting Is the
through the necessities Of the situation. 7 moan the
policy Of setting black man against black man.
the swazles to aggression on the Zuus stimulated
10y tho price Of 5000 cattlo placed on Getty
Amatengas, 10 kndle among them meGeeDary friend
snip and constitute them our hngcatchcrs. Colonel
Ohan who offered ZOO cattle reward Of mis- fra
erna act Of catching for Us his brother Major schwabe
carriers OF whose efficiency entertain the lowest opn-
ION. They will ea more than they carry aud 80 to the
front like snails, TO the rear Ike antelOpes.
Subsequent news may change the aspect Of things,
but at present 1t does not look if the English
need be too proud of what is doing in their name IN
South Africa.
| have quoted freely of late from Mr..
Forbes's dispatches, not feeling sure that
the cable could or would endure the
burden of such free speech. The whole of his
telegram to-day is in his most brilliant STYLE with
a certain energy of inyectve which is not far re-
moved from Mr. Bright. Chelmsford Is not the
only commander who has felt the weight of it q
paragraph is devoted to one of his subordinatesi
Zuluand will be the grave of more than one military
reputation hut no faue has been mere aDeet or con-
spicuous than that VI General Crealock whose dVlsOn
I found encauped Port Durntord Ii would DE
waste OF space To crlticse the GOnduct OF clet VINO
light have Uurn Uuudi before LORD emsfords force
had well entered Zuiuland, but who fingered dOsgedB
months, till MS opportunity OF escaping lsncminy had
drifted away from him.
Nh
This, you perceive, answers Cheimsfofds de-
spairing query, Where is CrealockT Poor Crea-
lock-aud poor Chelmsford also.
Chemsford's friends are industrious in saying
what they can in his behalf, no doubt. These who
are not his friends are perfectly willing lie should
have all the credit belonging TO him for his per-
Torrance at Ulundi. On the actual field of battle
and under fire, his deserts have been amply
acknowledged. What Forbes said of him at
UIandi relieves him from the ridicule and reproach
attaching to a commander who cannot or will not
fight. But of what led up to that battle TINS Is
what the Tory writer above mentioned in the
leading Tory journal feels himself still compelled
to say,
After having gathered 1000 men for the invasion
OF Zuluand and after marching aud cOun ernarcting
them aboat three months, L0rdChelms nshs ms
decisive battle with 1900 men, ARD entrey ueie@ts the
enemy.
If Won care 10 consult the purely Ministerial jour
mails, like The Times you will find much more rose
colored views of Lord Chelmsford's proceedings
and of the general situation. But i thlnk What L
have quoted above is the military anu common
sense view. 1t is, however, quite possible 81"
when Lord Chelmsford-who promptly resigned
after his victory -oOnes home ne VIII have tri-
unphant reception.
1t is not less possible that not less triumphant
reception may be given to one Of his otllcers VINO
embarked little earlier than Chelmsford ana
will arrive before him-Lieutonant Carey 10 VIII
There was a time when the Eugllsh would nave
reioiced 10 hear that Lieutenant Carey bad been