The Portland daily press., 1900-03-19
ROBERTS AND GRANT.



the M ethoas ny which both OF Them
Won Success.
London, March 1a-Mr. Spenssr VIII
kiuson reviews the war news for the past |
week for the Associated Press - foiioWsi |
1.-THE great secret Of war b personality |
Napoleon said. In waE the bia thing is
not men but man and the sudden change |
In the state of th . South African war IL |
due TO the presence and the power Of one
man, Lord Roberts.
"Eeven years ago I spent many weeks |
with him In India, accompanying him ~
his guest ON his last tour OF inspection Of
the Indian armies. saw for myself how
two hundred thousand men worshipped
him. Since his return from India thsfe
have been infiusnoss striving to keep him
I'm the background. Tie disassers Of the
winter gave him his opportunity and now
the world soes what he has made Of ID
''wben Sherman set out 10 march
through Georgia he asked General Grant
for an old chum, Cavalry Oniosr Wilson,
I uhink, aud when Wilson oams he sat
M half the night talking to Sherman.
who, bsfors retiring. said; Wilson, III
tell you where Grant beats all tha rest Of
us. He cont care . dAun fer what he
can't see the enemy doing and ID soarss
me Ike hell
"Rober,s IL like Grant. He is too big
to be disturbed at anything AID he quiet
y does just what he ueans to do. 40
cordingly his movements have knocked
the Beers ont OF time. Drisfontsin turns
out By the losses on both sidss, TO have
bean one Of the hardest fought actions OF
the war. Il has finished ths Free Skaters
and Eres State Roberts entered Blosm-
fontesn on Tuesday and the result has
been the eomlpets COLLAPSE Of the Free
Stats resistsnce.
"The railway was opened without DIM
Guilty to the Orange river. The rehsliion
In the Cape collapsed, the Free Statsrs
turning round " holesale. Meantime the
Transvaal Beers solemnly declare that
they have made Bigsarsbers imprsgnAble
but Butler has no need to run his hsad
against Biggarshsrg. Lord Roberts b
advancing to vaal river would turn Big
garsberg and the Bears must then be be-
tween two armies.
1.-THE Transvaal Beers may fight on in
the nope Of forsign Intervention. They
have NO other chance. as either British
army outnumbers them and they cannot
escape, being between two fires, except
| By perpetual retreat but, though l can
see no chance for them except through
intervention expect the TransvaAl Beers
will fight until the last. as their luminosity
to the British IL deep rooted. Intsrven'
ton hardly seems likely as the Brit'sh
navy is an unknown.quantity and the
| British nation quite determined.
| "The fate OF Mafsking 10 uncertain.
All recent reports show that despite the
great hardships the garrison will hold
out; that the besiegerE . growing tired
and timid and that r. movements are
in progress north and south, but the news
10 Indefinite. The situation Is summed
up In the Associated Prsss's latest de-
spatohes that the relief Of Mafeking may
be expected at any time"
fv-~pyEIKuS IsUU py the Associated Press. ]
Paris. March 1.-THE United States
has shown selfish Europe an example,"
said q responsible official to representa-
tive Of the Associated Press when asked
what was the feeling Of the French gov
eminent regarding President McKinlsy's
offer Of his good offices to England. eve
felt, continued the official in question,
"that our own position with respect to
England In view Of the present state
Of public feeling there. was too delicate
to admit OF our aooseding to Mr.. Kru-
gers appeal; and. as this reluctance ap.
pearsd to be shared BY every other power,
| the action Of the American government
In taking the initiative came as an agree
able surprise. That IL did not succeed
does not detraot from its merit"
The French government. while not pre-
pared to take the initiative, would, In
conjunction with Russia, readily have
supported America; hut the promptitude
of England refusal cut the ground
from under them.
This question of the destruction Of ths
gold mines. as predicted by Mr.. Montagn
White, Is regarded as serious matter
here and as being, not merely possible,
but probable.
The Associated Press learns that the
French government has received informa-
ton to the same effect from another
source and 1t considers the descendants
Of the Dutohmen, who flooded their own
country in order to rspel an invader.
quite capable Of following this historic
precedent in the case of foreign o wned
gold mines
The tension Of fseling between France
and England certainly has undergone
abatement this week, for which the CON-
ciliatory article Of the London Times is
largely respou slble; and the tact that 1t
was 80 well received BY the French press
demontratss that the Branoo-Phobe atti-
tude of many of the English papers is to
great extent accountable for the
strained relations of the two peoples.
Those nationalist organs whose anglo
phobism Is part of their studied party
policy have not abated their attack but
the moderate journals HAYS responded to