The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-29
De WET GETS
AWAY AGAIN
Eludes His Pursuers As
Before.
HE oUTW|iS KITCHENER
English Military Men Say That He
Is Proving Himself a Great
Strategist,

LONDON. August 1.-THE War Office
laa received dispatch from Lord Rob
erts expressing fear that General De
Wet has eluded his pursuers. Lord Rob
erts says he imagines that De Vets es-
cape is due to his breaking up his force
into small bodes.~
PRETORIA, Thursday. August H.
Gen. De Wet has managed to elude Gen.
Kitchener in spite of the fact that all the
British wagons had double teams of pick
ed animals. The Beers evaded the Brit
ish by marching at night over ground
known to them while their pursuers were
obliged to march in the day time.
NEW YORK. August 1S-A Tribune ca
bic from London says: The escape of De
Wet after the elaborate dispositions made
to surround him is very humiliating to
tho English Generals and has done some
damage to the reputation of Lord Kitche-
ner Lord Roberts sent Kitchener to take
complete control of the operations (Which
were to end in cornering De Wet. Meth
uen, Ian Hamilton and Smith-Dorrien
were cooperating with him, as well as
lflNddNObA = '-dNiiiN bliS"btS - NAie''
there must have been some 10000 troops
|crGeavoring to intercept the 1000 mounted
men who formed De VETS following
/ After being buoyed up for weeks with
hopes that this superbly led flying col
umn would be cornered, the British pub
lie are not At all pleased to hear that De
Wet has got clear away again, has out
marched both Methuen and Kitchener
and is heading north to join Delarey, who
has taken possession Of Rustenberg am
Seems to bc practically master of the
country almost up to Mafeking.
The few military men left in London ar.
fun Of admiration for De Wet. in whom
they admit the Beers have found a leade
of light troops of exceptional ability. Hi
march across the Free State from Beth
llehem to the Naal and northward from
the river to Rustenberg is one Of the fin
est performances of the kind in moder
campaigns. Bennett Burleish. the hes
judge OF military tactics among the Eng
. lish newspaper correspondents, wrote o
him even before he had added TO his for
: mer feats that of breaking throug
I<itchener's Gordon:
Rumble Hunter and Methuen are chas
ing him for three months; he has hal
are watching for him on the border c
! Natal: he has swooped on the lines {
communication, and apparently with
lpa!try 1000 men j. keeping then, at bal
\ whole battalion of Yeomanry, "A reg
nent Of militia and warm clothing for h
whole army have been captured. Homo
to whom honor Is due and the first tin
an English cavalry leader. acting und'
the same conditions as now surround ]
Wet, captures 1000 men, half of them ca
airy, breaks up lines of communicate
ard plays general old Harry with
force of something very near 10000 me
then [ shall speak OF him in terms
appreciation"
DE- WET AND BADEN-POWELL.
PRETORIA, August 1S.--Gen De w
appeared yesterday at North Comman
Mex, held by Gen. Baden-Powell, and Sc
- In a flag Of truce, asking the surrender
the British force. Gen. Baden-PoweH I
FLIED, asking what terms De Wet W
prepared to offer. DE Wet is evident
moving eastward.
Lord Roberts is issuing new. severe a
rigorous orders resembling the ones pr
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