THE LAST DRIVE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 75, 1 April 1902, Page 2

THE LAST DRIVE.

BOLD TACTICS OF THE BRITISH. THE BOERS SURPRISED AND HUSTLED. Press Association. Electric Telegraph. Copyright. London, March 29. Details of the last drive state that owing to the enormous area to be covered and the incompleteness of the blockhouse lines, Lord Kitchener adopted new tactics. The bulk of the enemy were at Hartbeestefontein. The British columns marched in bright moonlight a considerable distance westward of the enemy's position. Major - General Rawlinson, from Klerksdorp, aad some other columns, moving on parallel lines, rode fifty miles straight through the enemy's lines. The boldness of the move puzzled the enemy, whosesniping wasunheeded. At dawn the columns deployed and faced eastwards. The ends of the columns, encircling the Boers, with a view to driving them towards the Vaal, Klerksdorp, Schoensspruit and Lxchtenburg blockhouse lines. The rapidity of the movement came as a surprise. A thousand Boers were caught within the net. They were unprecedently hustled and driven without fighting from their guns by the Scottish Horse. They rushed in various directions. The extreme width of the British front caused one or two 'gaps while it was forming line, and the hilliness of the country also facilitated the Boers' escape southwards.