Reports on military operations in South Africa and China . ng local volunteers) and twelve field bat-teries, one mountain battery, and twenty naval guns usinglyddite. These forces did not include the fifth division, whichhad just arrived. Great Britain put forth new efforts to strengthen her forcesin the field. The fifth division (Warren) arriving in SouthAfrica on December 20, was to be joined by others. On theday of the defeat at Colenso orders were issued for the mobi-lization of the seventh division, and on December 16 the sixthdivision began to embark. On December 17 Field MarshalLord Rob
Reports on military operations in South Africa and China . ng local volunteers) and twelve field bat-teries, one mountain battery, and twenty naval guns usinglyddite. These forces did not include the fifth division, whichhad just arrived. Great Britain put forth new efforts to strengthen her forcesin the field. The fifth division (Warren) arriving in SouthAfrica on December 20, was to be joined by others. On theday of the defeat at Colenso orders were issued for the mobi-lization of the seventh division, and on December 16 the sixthdivision began to embark. On December 17 Field MarshalLord Roberts was appointed commander in chief of theBritish forces in South Africa, with Lord Kitchener as hischief of staff. The British war office gave a note to the presswhich stated that the appointment of Lord Roberts was madebecause the operations in Natal were such as to require Gen-eral Bullers undivided attention in that theater of operations. Extract from British Intelligence. War Office, Map LADYSM1TH SOUTH AND WEST. a ,V \- ^ f HOGS BACK MK^ABABA^JfJ. SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. 289 BULLERS SECOND AND THIRD ATTEMPTS TO RELIEVELADYSMITH. On January 9 the fifth division (Warren) reached the FrereCamp. This increased the force at the disposition of Bnllerto some 26,000 men. In the meanwhile the Boers had decidedupon attacking Lady smith and, on January 6, they made aneffort to take that city by storm before the approaching reen-forcements could arrive to raise the siege. Some of the British positions were carried and recarriedthree times during the day, but the Boers were finally repulsedwith a loss to Whites garrison of 498; the Boers reported aloss to themselves of 150, but this is probably an underesti-mate when it is considered that the Boers came out in theopen and were the assaulting party. The British placed theBoer loss at a much higher figure. Buller, on the morning ofthe 6th, had been informed by heliograph of the impendingassault, but he ventured only upo
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