Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-31
THE HILLS AROUND LADYsM1rH THAT BRITISH

the most difficult to carry and has the
best BOer troops 10 defend H.
"Will ne choose the line through the
Oronge Free state? Possibly, but |
think not. He viii need, however, 10
clear those cross railways and secure
the country below 10 the Orange river,
that he may have the connecting rail-
ways from Molteno Via MiddleDurg 10
De Aar as a secondary base. That
could be done promptly. Then he could
go forward rapidly repairing the
western railroad above De Aar as he
pushed out to Join Methuen; then crush
Cronjes forces, relieve Kimberley,
and AT once break across eastward TO
the central railroad and use that road
for a rapid advance upon Pretoria OF
course Joubert would retire from
COlenso and Ladysmith the instant
he saw Lord Roberts plan. Then
Butler could pick W General Whites
force Of five thousand and press along
with vigor 10 kee? as many Boer SOL
dlers as possible there to oppose his
threats against johannesburg and Pre-
toria by that route.
IF. after the crushing defeat Of
Cronje Joubert and his stalwart presl-
dent did not make peace, probably there
would be first a hard fought battle
near Kronstad and another, the last
one. at johannesburg
Mr.. Gust, who writes "On the Dutch
In South Africa" says in one para
graph: "A thousand voices tell US that
Il Is the land greed. the gold greed the
empire greed Of England that have
made the war. England, they scream, Is
the conquerlng tyrant Of free nations
Yet It Is a French born government,
loyal 10 England. that sends troops to
the front from Canada. and IL Is a
Dutch government loyal 10 England
that IS in power at the Cape today
Formulas grow meaningless by repeti-
ton, but what truth they carry is I'M
changed. When England claims Equal
rights for all white men south OF the
Zamhesi' she says what genera
tlons In practice have proved true, that
In no English colony Of the world has
the proudest richest Engllshman one
lonely political or commercial advan-
tage over the humblest and poorest for
eign immigrant"
Or. Voight concludes his interesting
article on THE Afrlkanders in Natal"
with the following
The largest army which England has
ever had on the battlefield IN South
Africa-over twenty thousand men.
horse. foot and artillery, with powerful
buns from British warships and with
lyddite shells TO help them--has been
hurled back from the upper Tugela line
losing 1000 men In killed. wounded and
prisoners, and also eleven guns.
ION the Tugela, where the fathers
died in 1888, aye, and south OF the Tu-
gela, are the sons now on the sixteenth
OF December, 1899
They are there with Lucas Meyer
with Louis Botha. whose mother was
In the lager on the Bushman's river
In 1888, and whit Schalk Burger, whose
father was outlawed and prescribed by
the British government, and went
across Drakensberg In 1912.
They stand on the Tugela, while IN
the back ground the great Drakensburg
mountains where the snow white ever
hastings glow, rear their topmost peaks
above the clouds
The British general has asked for
an armIstlce 10 bury his dead-on the
sixteenth OF December-to bury his
dead in the very ground where rest
some Of the bones OF the murdered
Voortrekkers
"'Avenge Maiuba.' the crowds have
shouted In London and al Durham and
Capetown. God has avenged slachters-
mex instead"