Evening star., 1901-03-27
KITCHENER HAS FAILED
HIS CAMPAIGN PLANS DID NOT BRING
RESULTS.
He and Sir Alfred Milner at Odds
Latter Likely to
Resign.

LONDON, March 27.-The Pretoria and
Bloemfontein correspondents Of the Times
send long dispatches admitting that Lord
Kitchener's policy and operations have
failed to achieve the results hoped for, and
pointing out that the British public must
be prepared to return to the original policy
of occupying districts and studding the
country with military posts as the only
means of effecting complete pacification.
This process. the correspondents say, will
occupy much time and necessitate a con-
stant supply of fresh troops. The strain
on both officers and men has been and will
be immense, and arrangements must be
made to send absolutely fresh troops to the
front in order to enable the others to be
sent him.
Unless this aspect is grasped by the au-
thorities." say the advices to the Times,
there Is a possibility of the war lasting
for years. 1t is quite useless to renew
peace negotiations. Nothing approa ching
terms as the word is generally under
stood, would be polite even possible
with the Boers.'
The Daily Express prints a rumor that
Sir Alfred Miner is dissatisfied with his
qualified authorlty and has asked the gov
ernment to give him "either free hand or
no hand Mr.. Chamberlain is said to have
replied that it would not be advisable to
dissociate the authority Of Sir Alfred Mil
ner from that of Lord Kitchener and the
rumor goes that Sir Alfred contemplates
resgning.
1T is open secret" says the Daily
Express, that Sir Alfred Miner has long
chafed at having Lord Kitchener at his
elbow to check or modify his proposals.
A dispatch from Vryheid in the Trans
vaal, reports the arrival there of Gen.
French, with Dartnat's and Putteney's col
part of the Transvaal Gen French re-
ports having killed, wounded and captured
1,S00 Beers. He has also taken seven cam
non, 1000 rifles. 1.sOO wagons and 226OOO
head Of horses, cattle and sheep.
The dispatch from Vryheid is regarded
as giving the total to General French's
captures throughout his operations It in
dicates, therefore, the capture Of one ad-
ditional gun and of additional Beers and
war material.
The Amsterdam correspondent of the
Daily Mail wires the substance of an in
terview with Mr.. Kruger whom he found
in most optimistic frame of mind
General Babington's victory over Cen
eral Delarey had been. Mr. Kruger
thought, exaggerated in the reports. He
said the Magaliesberg range and Rusten-
burg were again in the possession of the
Boers." continues the correspondent, land
the old guerrilla game would continue until
England had been forced into making
peace oVertures."
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Express reports the capture by 100
Beers of 130 colonials in a rocky defile near
Richmond last Thursday.
He asserts that the colonials lost thfr-
teen men before they surrendered adding
that they were all liberated after having
been stripped Of their accouterments.
Kruger Coming to America
PARIS, March Pile Rappel gives
space this morning to the following re-
markable communication from Amster-
dam:
"Mr. Kruger will sail for the United
States next month, On the invitation of
the American pro-Boer committee, to give
series Of lectures. The committee homes
to collect $4,000, 900 and to form a yoInn-
teer fotilla with which to transport men
and ammunition to the Transvaal"