[3] The proffer of an untenable post always is the bait of the Second Ambuscade.
(London Daily Mail, Jan. 29, 1900.)
“The richest and what was hitherto considered the most powerful nation in the world is today in the humiliating position of seeing its armies beaten back with heavy losses by two small states.”
FOURTH EXAMPLE.
(Boston Globe, Feb. 16, 1900, by Franklin K. Young.)
“Lord Roberts’ communications for nearly two hundred miles are exposed to the attack of an enemy, who at any moment is liable to capture and destroy his supply and ammunition trains and to reduce the British army to a condition wherein it will be obliged to fight a battle under most disadvantageous circumstances.”
(From United States War Department Report on the British Boer War. By Capt. S. L’H. Slocum, U. S. Attache with British Army.)
“Feb. 15, 1900. The main supply park of the army was attacked by the enemy near Watervale Drift.
“This park consisted of one hundred ox-wagons containing rations and one hundred more wagons filled with ammunition. One hundred and fifty of these wagons and three thousand oxen were captured by the Boers.