BULLER’S POSITION.
THE SPIONKOP DESPATCHES,
By, Telegraph—Press Association—copyngnt.
LONDON, April 18, The suppressed Spionkop despatches have been published. They show that Sir Redvers Buffer “severely, condemned General Warren’s inability to execute orders or command his force. His slowness, it was stated, lost the opportunity to relieve Ladysmith.
General Buffer added : “ I can never employ him again in an independent command. I blame myself for not assuming command when things were not going well. I feared that by so doing l would discredit .Warren in .the eyes of the troops.” Lord Roberts considered that it was General Buffer’s duty to intervene, and that iiis explanations were inadequate^
WHAT THE TIMES SAYS.
BULLER MAKES LIGHT OF, DISCLOSURE.
By. .Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, iApnl 18.
Sir Redvers Buffer, interviewed by the Daily Express, denied that the disclosures much affected his military, reputation. The Times says that the despatches are a crushing condemnation cf Buffer, and justify Lord Roberts severest strictures.
The press is amazed at Sir Redvers Buffer provoking their publication.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 394, 19 April 1902, Page 2
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168BULLER’S POSITION. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 394, 19 April 1902, Page 2
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