The
Informal Warfare Which Was Made Upon Us By Citizens Of Many Nations
Without Rebuke From Their Own Governments Is
A matter of which
pride, and possibly policy, have forbidden us to complain, but it
will be surprising if it
Does not prove that their laxity has
established a very dangerous precedent, and they will find it
difficult to object when, in the next little war in which either
France or Germany is engaged, they find a few hundred British
adventurers carrying a rifle against them.
The record of the army's advance is now rather geographical than
military, for it rolled northwards with never a check save that
which was caused by the construction of the railway diversions
which atoned for the destruction of the larger bridges. The
infantry now, as always in the campaign, marched excellently; for
though twenty miles in the day may seem a moderate allowance to a
healthy man upon an English road, it is a considerable performance
under an African sun with a weight of between thirty and forty
pounds to be carried. The good humour of the men was admirable, and
they eagerly longed to close with the elusive enemy who flitted
ever in front of them. Huge clouds of smoke veiled the northern
sky, for the Boers had set fire to the dry grass, partly to cover
their own retreat, and partly to show up our khaki upon the
blackened surface. Far on the flanks the twinkling heliographs
revealed the position of the wide-spread wings.
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