The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-22
/ AFRICAN SITUATION
!, Status Of Affairs Is Carefully
i s,ddsn BY The Censorship
|,,,.1,os OF THE MILITARY WRITER'S
r.m Argue one Way ana
pc o. A. the Contrnry-Brh-
on. arc wary of poer Craft

November 21.-A dispatch
~ r.,,ure from London says me
'De Mich Lord Salisbury opened tne
'ol -,d the ground by a secre'
dp' ,,ao with the German emperor
"A tho transition stage between
,a,,s attack thwared by , the success IS,
'u''' =, Iadysmith, Mateking ana
os' .ra british offensive operations
s,ening On large scale lhere wa ;
.oaav of elastic rumors oil
'eps' ..,ulso of the Beers at Lady
ss's wo1nosday but these have been
nv '. !, advance by definite news
'' General whites army had remained
- late as Friday There were
W. .o,or,s that Jouberts force had
y, ,he siege gone south and cut OIL
,ron, the sea, but this lacked
The siege of Ladysmith
i' ,yldsp,ly failed but the resources o,
oraft have not been cNnaustol ann
white and Clery need TO De on tnei,
N .sa,ns, being entrapped Al the last
~ when The union OF their lcr.es
w, ,,Irod caution aud patience ms
,es' ,,ndertnne of talk AT the war OF
lN a,nonr the military stan and the
apu eynressed thai White would re-
IN va" ,,st aud Clery would not allow
mss,t 10 he hurried.
rssn n. facts of the military situat on
[,.,sr Natal are carefully conceale !.
1 Main that Clery viii have IN inc
arss AZ few days a force OF li'ooN Or
AM nSl troops. including the naval brigade
,be battaIians which were on the
{.,,d before endorsements began TO
I-Iya at Durham. These will include three
.r,dss of the First. Second AMI Third
,islens and the Second Somerset Lishi
{,,-,ry which ler; Capetown Yesterday.
I'm clsry and Hildyard have been con-
s,,aa with the STAFF college and are con-
|dered among the best tacticians of the
irsb army They have been great fav-
[jtps with Lord Wolseley and under
and mo minuetest details of military
ksics and strategy as taught in the te h
fral schools.
! while the campaign in Natal is wrapped
mystery and darkness, so much hgh'
thrown on the movement toward KIM
krsy that some leading military writer:
Feline 10 believe that it will come on as
ksey as advertised Lord Metheun la;
no brigades, including the gaurd regimen
h Lancers; several batteries and nava
|pDtlrgent and apparently the Highland
fieade under Wauchope, Will join him
| This will be body of nearly $1,000 men
fseptics assert that the censor would no
|llow the press dispatches to go through
Kimberley were the real destination o
BE column, and predict that it will oc
|upy both banks Of the Orange river am
RAW off the Dutch troops from Cape Col
my Other writer's urge that the ad
lance guard has gone too far to supper
hat theory and that Kimberley may b.
b greater straits than the public sup
)oses and that General Butler knows tina
The relief column must march speedily
[te censorship in that quarter has Ell
Rently been relaxed under some secret mo
HE which is not readily understood.
General Getacres is evidently eXpecte,
10 play an important part in the adyanc
fpon BlOemfontein from East London Il
Connection with Methuens operations, blu
PTS force is now small.
Three divisions have been completely re
past without regard TO red tape.
Naval officers are annoyed by criticism
n the admiralty for arranging sea trans
portalon by slow ships and are retortin
mat the situation has been saved by tn
paws guns They contend that the wa
|lhCe was Ignorant of the artillery re
Foufees of the Beers and allowed Lady
fmhh TO be selected as d camp withou
providing guns equal in range to thos
(lounted against it on the outlying hills
Fu' that the effect of this blunder wa
Founleracted by the naval 12-pounder
tsht from the ships in the nick of tint
FMS can not be denied. nor can it l.
tueshoned that the naval guns on i'm
Pfovlsed carriages have trans formed til
flluaiion at Estcourt and on the Orans
FLYER
point which Englishmen not connect
~ win the rival services perceive is tht
! ae resources Of the British governmer
~ carrying on war at long distanC
falsnd are enormously increased by tn
FeuYe cooperation Of the army and nav
N me present campaign. The blue jacl
now on exhibition at Ladysmith. Els
[gur' ana the Orange river are like II
ffpoSs displayed at Malta by Lord Rel
nsneld as a practical reminder to Rus
mat there was more than one way
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