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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6709, 30 May 1900, Page 4

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Severe j^^^RPl^^^^^^^^l Brilisiju^V OFFIOEK^PHH^^H Bwingin^^V Church^Hg j 8 t ne foregoing censure off de™ "j^Hsffieers it pales before the !i^B* aNegations pV Mr.Winston aay£3^»ll and The Time"3 corresDonr^J^W. Capetown.. The latter, dealing L C~|^V the disaster at 'Xoqrnspruit, ?j^Hp—" All the details which have here only serve to bring out I the marvellous carelessness ; : , improvidence of our officers, whom, I would seem, no series of disasters -• ever teach to keep wide awake. Boers in Colonel Broad wood's rear.drove his force into the party at the drift exactly as partridges are driven to the gun. At the drift itself, as each waggon went down the hollow, the Boers quietly covered the drivers and pointed where to drive to, so as W not to block the convoy. When the ¥ guns arrived the trap was all clear ' again for their reception. To quote the worda of one present:—'lt was just Kke walking intti a cloak-room. The Bders politely took your rifle and asked you kindly to on one side, and there was nothing else you could do.' There has already been much' talk at Home of reorganising and increasing the army, The one thing really important is to make the army intelligent. Our generals, regimental officers, and soldiers are all brave— none braver—but it is useless to shirk the fact that the majority of them are stupid." —^