The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-02-02
As General Howard Sees 1t.

General Howard briefly reviews the
campaign up TO the time Of General Bull
ler's first attempt TO cross the Tugels
river. Viewing the situation as it then
stood, he says Lord Roberts must choose
one of three lines OF advance 80 soon as
he has enough men 10 work out Il deci.
sve movement. Dwelling upon the
military problems before the new COM
mander-in.chiei OF the British forces ia
South Africa, he says:
f" VIII he take the Durham line? 1t is
the shortest, but IL is intrinsically the
most difficult TO carry and has the best
Boer troops to defend IL. Will he choose
the line through the Orange Free State?
Possibly, but think not. He viii need,
however, TO clear those cross railways
and secure the country below to the
Orange river that he may have the con-
meeting railways from MolieDo via Mid
dleburg 10 De Aar as a secondary base.
That could be done promptly. Then he
could go forward rapidly, repairing the
western railway above De Aar as he
pushed on to join Methuen; then crush
Cronje's force, relieve Kimberly and at
once break across eastward TO the central
railroad and use that road for rapid
advance upon Pretoria.
"Of course Joubert would retire from
Colenso and Ladysmith the instant he
saw Lord Roberts plan. Then Butler
could pick up Gene al Whites force OF
5000 and press along with yigor to keep
as many Boer soldiers as possible there
TO oppose his threats against Johannes
burg and Pretoria by that route. II,
after the crushing defeat Of Cronje,
JOubert and his stalwart president did
not make peace, probably there would
be first a hard fought battle near Kron-
stad and ahother-the last on at
Johannesburg.
Mr.. Gust, who writes on "The Dutch
in South Africa, says In one paragraph;
"A thousand voices tell us that it is
the land greed, the gold greed, the em-
pire greed OF England that have made
the war. England, they scream, is the
conquering tyrant of free nations. Yet
it is FFench-born government, loyal to
England, that sends troops TO the
front from Canada, and it is a
Dutch government, loyal TO England,
that is in power at the Cape
today. Formulas grow meaningless by
repetition, but what truth they carry
is unchanged. When England claims
equal rights for all white men OF the
Zambesi, she says what generations in
practice have proved true, that in Cape
Colony and Natal and RhOdesia, the
Bver stands on exactly the same foot
ing with the English-born and
more, that in no English colony OF the
world has the proudest, richest Eng
lishman one lonely political or CONNER
cial advantage over the humblest aud
poorest foreign immigrant"
Slachler's Mex Avenged.
| Dr. Noight concludes his interesting
article on "The Airikanders in Natal, q"
with the following;
"The largest army which England
las ever had on the battlefield in South
Airica-oyer 1000 men. horse, foot
aud artillery, with powerful guns from
British warships, and with lyddite shells
10 help lhem-has been hurled back
from the upper Duegela line. losing
700 in killed, wounded and prisoners
and also II guns. On the Tugela. where
the fathers died in 1888. aye, and south
OF the Tugela, are the sOns now, on the
lbsh day OF DECEMBER. 1889 They are
there with Lucas Meyer; With Louis