The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

/ White should rest content with the
successes SO far achieved and fall
back. pointing out that ne appears to
be fully able to move his forces quick
! ly and without deterioration.
( 1t is scarcely probable that he will
follow this course. preferring rather to
hold Ladysmith. though against much
superior numbers. until reinforced. 1T
is the feeling that the general intends
to follow the latter course that creates
uneaSinesss for victories over Beers
| units are not believed to indicate that
the game result can be achieved over
the Beers when massed.
Plans of the Beers.
Compared with this impending move
ment about Ladysmith, the fate Of
Kimberley and Mafeking, and the prog
ress of the other independent opera
lions are almost insignificant. The ra-
pidity of the Boer advance and the te-
nacity Of the endeavors Of their col
umns to concentrate on General White
have proved clearly that the Beers
plans were matured long before hOst1Et-
ties displaced negotiations. and though
they may be unable to stand before the
brilliant charges of the British troops
or serve their artillery with che skill
of their opponents. they are mobile
force and operate tremendously under
a carefully prepared plan Of cam.
No one seems to have the faintest
idea of what conditions VIII confront
the British army corps upon IT'S arrival
in South Africa. Will it be an aveFlg-
ing force whose duty will be to wipe
out the defeat of General White and
the capture of Mafeking and Kl1mber-
ley. or will it simply be walkover to
Pretoria, dispensing BOer bands dIsln-
teerated by the strain of a long CAM
paign and discouraged by constant re-
verses? These questions are upperm0St
in the minds of all connected with the
war office.
Departure of Troops.
BY Nov. 4 the last troopship should
have sailed, burt the army corps Will
scarcely take the field until the end or
December. There is a luli in the depar-
ttIre of the troops forming tine army
CORPS. owing, the admiralty officials
saw. to the troops not being ready.
The enbarkation of 2l.090 men, 1'00o
horses and seven batteries of artillery,
with the wagons and equipment. De-
tween Oct &c and "a is pointed TO as
being a splendid feat upon the part
of the admiralty, not forgetting, now
ever. to also give credit to the army
for havins, the men ready at Cne uoEh-
Tiautenaat Commandment CGlwell, the
eNSAAANENAN
cIoseTv watched the embaFkation OF the
tro0ps at Southampton, said to a rep
rasentative of the Associated Press:
III was a splendid slight. Everything
was dome in splendid oEdeA- On each
TRANSPORT a naval lieutenant was IN
command and ON the dock a naval OF
fieer supervised the whole. The army
officers had their rnen lined up and a
staff sergeant pasRed along the ranks
ehcupfng eighteen men off at a TIME
AIMS forming messase Marching On
board. they found everything prepared
for them.
Cost of Mobilization.
Sir Charles Dixie .writing to tue
Sneaker, draws attention TO the giga1a-
fie cost Of the mobilization Of a conf
narative1v small army He says.
Though the war office processes ~
be pleased with the result Of the moo
iIization, they look far longer c. COM
p7efe arrangements than the maximum
period allowed bg other powers
Continufngs Sir Charles declared that
the present system IS entirely wrong
G While the nation ~ enthralledf bys the