. Review of reviews and world's work. o the westward, hadbeen made, to divert the attention of tiie Boersin that direction. On the r2th a force of cavalryunder the command of General French, who hadcome from the south to join Methuens forces,made a dash across the Riet River at the Dekieland Waterval Drifts, fifteen miles east of theModder River camp. On the following dayGeneral French forced a passage of the ModderRiver at the Klip and Rondeval Drifts, and onthe evening of the 15th entered , an important base of supplies for theBoers southeast of Kimberley, was also occupie
. Review of reviews and world's work. o the westward, hadbeen made, to divert the attention of tiie Boersin that direction. On the r2th a force of cavalryunder the command of General French, who hadcome from the south to join Methuens forces,made a dash across the Riet River at the Dekieland Waterval Drifts, fifteen miles east of theModder River camp. On the following dayGeneral French forced a passage of the ModderRiver at the Klip and Rondeval Drifts, and onthe evening of the 15th entered , an important base of supplies for theBoers southeast of Kimberley, was also occupiedby Lord Roberts on the 15th. The Boers hadnot offered much resistance against these ad-vances, and General Cronjes army was reportedto be in full retreat, a part of it being headed,apparently, for Bloemfontein, and a part of itfalling back to the northwest of Kimberley,toward Barkly. General Methuen had been leftat Magersfontein, and General Kelly-Kennysdivision was left in control of the drifts on theModder River east of MAP TO ILLUSTRATE LORD ROBERTS ADVANCE. AVith the relief of Kimberley Englishof the despondency gave place to the wildest^^^ enthusiasm, and the praises of LordsRoberts and Kitchener were sung in extravagantpaeans. When the time comes in England forsober judgment, however, it will be rememberedthat, in the first place, Robeits and Kitchenerhad a great many more troops than were at thecommand of General Bulier, and, in the secondplace, that they were allowed to begin a campaignon military lines, whereas Bulier had beenobliged to give up his own military plans inorder to accommodate the political exigenciesthat Sir Alfred Milner, the Britisli commissionerin South Africa, and the ministry in Englandregarded as imperative. Proper military strategywould have paid no attention at all to Ladysmithand would not have split up the British forces,but would have marched in solid mass straightfor the centers of the two allied republics. Re-lieving Kimberley is
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