HUSTLING THE BOERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 311, 11 January 1902, Page 2

HUSTLING THE BOERS.

A. recent cablegram stated that the Times favored the wearing-down tactics as the only means to deal with the I,oers. ISy the mail we find that the Times gives the following wholesome ac vice “ The enemy never remains to he attacked. By means of scums dotted all over the country inhumation reaches lliem of the movements (f our columns, and they are geneiaily able to move off before our troops come up. On the other hand, the separate commandos, as is the case in South-east Transvaal, are near enougn together to concentrate in twenty-lour hours so as to become equal in numbers to our columns. If the enemy only remained divided in tiuei l dr foui commandos of several thousand raim the work of running Item A earth would be ,relatively easyi but as things are no other course is -ojwi except to continue hustling them, gradually extending the areas cleared.'" Tins work undoubtedly will be 'low and sure, and there is no ;u:,lT’cation for impatience. The more men ibe commander-in-chief can put into the field—the striking arm at present is onij' some -15,000 men—the sooner will the end of the war come.” 'Phe weak feature of the work of hustling is that our men seen: to be caught napping whenever De Wet feels incited to round on them. The reports Hi at have come slowly to hand of the Timlkop ah air show that it was much, much more serious than was at first made out, ana a few such disasters as that prove the great need of caution.