Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-06-07
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History Repeating Itself.


found only three guns remaining IN
the forts at johannesburg. The 9TH
ers had been removed by the Beers
to another and more favorable place.
a dispatch from Lourenzo Marques
declares that the Beer leaders have
resolved to fight to flush. And We
may be sure they will fight in their
own way, at times and in positions of
their own choosing.
The more The News considers the
South African situation the more it is
convinced that the war is far from
over. The rapid and almost unop.
posed advance Of the British the
Orange Free State and the TransvaaI
to the environs of Pretoria, instead
of being proof that the Beers defense
has collapsed, is proof that they have
no intention of asking for peace.
From BloemfonteIn to Johannes
burg there was not single position
where 10000 men could hope to
make successful stand against 200,-
600. While they might be able to re-
sist a frontal attack, the overwhelm-
ing army under Roberts, while as
sailing the front, could swing its far
reaching wings around them and sur
round them. Once surrounded by
force of ten to one, the destruction Of
the Beers must follow, no matter how
long or how gallantly they fought.
TO permit themselves to be surround
ed would mean the end of the war.
Had the Beers thus been encom-
passed and forced to surrender, man
kind still would acclaim their brave
fight and do them honor. They would
have lost none of the glory that fairly
is theirs. But the grim determine
ton to husband their resources, to
preserve their guns and save their
men, and to battle without thought
of surrender. is shown in every move
of the Fabian policy of retreat which
has kept the Boer army intact, and
VIII oh has carried off practically
every cannon and every pound OF am
Nmunitlon.
History only will repeat itself if
the Beers take to the noun famous
regions in the Northeastern Trans
wal. The Swiss again and again
were defeated by superior forces, and
fad, but they fed no further than the
nearest rugged peak, and when even
bullets failed them, rocks hurled by
strong arms served their purpose. In
Spain the armies of the monarchy
could not stand before the legions of
Napoleon, but the Spsniards indomi-
tably fought as guerriIlas, and Spain
was no nearer conquered after three
years of such war than it was before
the French crossed the Pyrennes.
The Boer blood is not blood that
surrenders. The Beers are descend
ed from two races which fought guer-
rilla wars long after their forces
could not hold the open field The
Huguenots fought, hoping against
hope, long after the world gave ap
their cause as lost, and the Dutch of
Holland cut the dykes and returned
their country to the sea, in order to
destroy the invading armies of Spain.
Indeed, the American revolution 1T
self, during large part of the time
it was fought, was little more than
guerrilla warfare, extended over large
sections of country.
In Switzerland, in Spain, in Hol-
land, IN the United States, the real
war began only after pitched battles
had been fought and lost by the de-
Tending forces. While the case is
not exactly parallel, We might cite
the Nkpoleonie invasion OF Russia as
an instance Ia which the invading
army was able to oVereoms the forces
in the field against it, and to advance
to the capital of the defending coun-
try, only to be compelled to retreat
under circumstances which meant an
initiation.
At three far separated points on
Saturday attacks were made on the
British lines of communication, show
ing that the people from Pretoria Far
south into Cape Colony are enemies
of the British and will attack Lord
Roberts communications at every OPP
pertunity. His task will become more
difficult every day. when he is in
volved In the hills north and east of