AN OLD TALE.
MILITARY UNPREPAREDNESS,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.14 p.m., March 27. London, March 27. Lord Lansdowno testified beforo the War Commission that the forecasts of tho military advisers greatly under-valued tho Boor fighting qualities and staying powers. Tho reports aud minutes illustrated this. Tho field forco his military advisors recommended was inadequate, although they though it an excess of precaution. General Buffer had no written instructions regarding tho plan of campaign, but no information was withheld which it was dosirablo for General Buffer to know. Tho Government had not interfered with the disposition of the movement of tho troops
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 852, 28 March 1903, Page 2
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