Review of reviews and world's work . ts operations seems toliave but little effect on the rapidity of his move-ments; the army marched twenty miles in one dayon the way to Johannesburg. As soon as theBritish had peaceably occupied Johannesburg, onMay 30, Bobs began the culminating step in hisSouth African mission—the capture of Boers were by tliis time much impressed withthe inevitability of the British commanders of-fensive movements, and they must have decidedsome time before that it was useless to stay inPretoria simply to be gobbled up by General Rob-erts. At any rate, before
Review of reviews and world's work . ts operations seems toliave but little effect on the rapidity of his move-ments; the army marched twenty miles in one dayon the way to Johannesburg. As soon as theBritish had peaceably occupied Johannesburg, onMay 30, Bobs began the culminating step in hisSouth African mission—the capture of Boers were by tliis time much impressed withthe inevitability of the British commanders of-fensive movements, and they must have decidedsome time before that it was useless to stay inPretoria simply to be gobbled up by General Rob-erts. At any rate, before any one could find outwhether the Boers were to make a last desperate THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 19 stand at Pretoria, as had always been antici-pated, or not General Roberts was there, Presi-dent Kiiiger had fled, and the commandos of tlierepublic had taken off all their artillery and mostof the rolling-stock of the Netherlands June 5, Loixl Roberts took possession of Pre-toria, after a flght at Six Miles Spruit on the. THE FAMOUS TUNNEL AT LAINGS NEK. previous day. In the meantime, General Bailerhad been stubbornly battering his way throughthe Drakensberg Mountains, in Natal. On June8 he forced Bothas Pass, and three days latergained possession of the historic ground aboutLaings Nek and Majuba—a most significantadvantage, which fully assured his communica-tions with the main Bi-itish army to the north-wast. It was found that the Laings Nek tun-nel could be repaired, contrary to the generalreport, which had it tliat the Boers completelywrecked the tunnel by starting an engine at fullspeed at each end loaded witli dynamite. Theuse of this road to the British is all-important, asenabling them to i-eacli a point on the coast muchnearer the Transvaal than any they have beenable to utilize before. Tlio burghers who insist on fighting The Remnant , ^ , , i x i xi i of Boer to the end have betaken themselvesResistance. ^^ ^j^^ Lydeuburg district, in the eastof the Tran
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