The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1900-02-14
ENGLAND Is OVERMATCHED.
1ur RoERS ARE SUPERIOR FIGHTERS
TO THE BRIT0NS.
We're Outnumbered Ten to One in Some OF
Tho Battles. Writer to a New York

Were Outnumbereo len " o'0 III 00'''' "
The Battles. Writer to a New York
Pauer Gives Interesting information
Enuepe E. CASTOR, IN the New York
rournal, thus speaks of the fighting Oh
the Beers:
ENGLAND will very soon begin to appre
ciate the fact that very serious mistakes
have been made somewhere by some>
bodv, either in England or in south Al
RIGA.
What these mistakes really have been
is probably still not known or ever Will
be. They may be attributed to as many
canses as there are theories advanced by
different people, but the fact remains
thew have been made and at very criti-
cal time for England. Some may attrlo-
ute them to a lack of sufficient cavalry,
too small proportion of artillery, too
large a proportion Of infantry or vice
versa. While the English officers are
desperately attempting to rectify the
mistakes that have been made and proht
by their experience it may De interest
ing news that the Beers are thoroughly
convinced that they present military
proble n that will remain unsolYed by
professional military men.
[ was with the Beers in the campaign
from Newcastle to Colenso, and no sin
Gle encounter took place in which the
English forces did not have the pick OF
positions 10 start With, yet were driven
back into Ladysmth, where they practl'
caly became prisoners. There was no
single encounter in which the English
did not outnumber those attacking
them.
1t cannot be claimed that the British
troops in Natal were as body any infe>
rior to any other body of men in the
British army. 1t is also an indisputable
fact that every preparation was practi-
cally completed for this force of English
troops to invade the iransvaal. Lines of
communication had been completed for
this force Of English troops to invade the
TranSvaal. Lines of communication had
been thoroughly arranged. Besides the
railway perfect military road had just
been completed from Ladysmtth to the
TranSvaal border. This road is splen-
did piece of military engineering, and
perfectly balasted.
General White, in command of these
forces in Natal, believe ranks among
kngland's best generals, but in the face
Of all these facts and preparations an
army of farmers officered by men who
neyer spent a day in a military school
and leading men who could not perform
single military evolution forced them
rapidly back through mountainous coun-
try and through level country into Lady
smith, where they became helpless, so
lar as their ability to make a move is
concerned.
Alter this catastrophe an exactly SINH
iar one took place in the attempt to re-
}ieve Kimberly.
another took place at Stromberg, and
oeIore left the Transvaal General Bull,
Ter had received the first defeat at Colen-
So mat these defeats should occur
~ ~ inherent parts of the country, under
inherent generals and in entirely differ
onI country geographically, indicate
Ihe resources of the Beers.
Ane popular Impression is, l see by
Tue newspapers, that the Beers had oy-
empowering numbers at each of these en-
Sagements know it to be fact, viii ch
%lil prove itself in time, and which the
british military authorities in south AT
a,ea already know, that in some of these
easements the Beers had proportion
" I9e English of one to ten.
uaI saw convinced me that the
+3OelS quiet prediction as to their ability
t,UGope with the entire English army of
~ ;r" an troops had more fact than fancy
800 was present at Kreigsraad pre-
LEU LEU over by General Joubert a few
va, lays after the battle of Modder Spruit,
s 4nol General White realized that his
Adyy Ladysmuh might be prolonged.
az "i; tne lighting generals, commanders
-u neid comets of the BOer forces were
p'oSenC TO discuss the situation. At that
tbl9e'Ing an old field cornet predicted
v va. IEngland's supply of regular troops
V ,,y,c, soon be exhausted.
roy. hhen England begins to send out the
nioS and also troops from other colo
sizes then our work in the field will
b b;.'Ae home" he said quietly between
Us measured puffs of smoke.
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