The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-08-31
DE WET GETS
AWAY AGAIN
EIudes His Pursuers As
Before.
He OuTW|TS KITCHENER
English Military Men Say That He
Is Proving Himself a Great
Strategist.

LONDON. August i7.-The War Office
has received a dispatch from Lord Rob-
erts expressing a 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 bodies.
PRETORIA, Thursday. August l6.-
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 ia Tribune ca
bic from London says: The escape of De
Wet after the elaborate dispositions made
10 surround him Is very humiliating to
the 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
ucn. Ian Hamilton and Smith-Dorrien
were cooperating with him. as well as
Broadwoods cavalry brigade, so that
there must have been some 10000 troops
en6eavoring 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 and
seems to be practically master of the
country almost up to Mafekng.
The few military men left in London are
full of admiration for De Wet, in whom
,1,a- =, Aoxy 1nr
of light troops of exceptional ability. His
march across the Free State from Beth
lehem to the Wall and northward from
the river to Rustenberg Is one of the fin
est performances of the kind in modern
campaigns Bennett Burleigh, the best
Judge of military tactics among the Eng
lsh newspaper correspondents, wrote OF
him even before he had added to his for
mer feats that of breaking through
Kitchener's Gordon:
Rumble, Hunter and Methuen are chas-
ing him for three months; he has held
the former at bay. Thirty thousand men
are watching for him on the border of
Natal; he has swooped on the lines of
communication. and apparently with a
paltry 1000 men is keeping them at bay.
A whole battalion of Yeomanry, regi-
Inent of militia and warm clothing for his
whole army have been captured Honor
to whom honor is DUE and the first time
an English cavalry leader. acting under
the same conditions as now surround De
Wet, captures 1000 men, half of them cav
airy, breaks up lines of communication
and plays general old Harry with a
force of something very near $4,000 men.
then I shall speak OF him in terms of
appreciation"
DE WET AND BADEN-POWELL.
PRETORIA, August 1s.-Gen, De Wet
appeared yesterday at North Commando
Mex. held by Gen. Baden-Powell. and sent
in flag of truce, asking the surrender of
the British force. Gen. Baden-Powell re-.
FLIED, asking what terms De Wet was
prepared to Offer De Wet Is evidently
moving eastward.
Lord Roberts is issuing new severe AMI
rigorous orders, resembling the ones pre-
viously issued.