OUR ARTILLERY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222053, 20 February 1900, Page 2

OUR ARTILLERY.

Mr Lionel the “London Times” correspondent, wrhin«- f-oori Ladysmi'h under date November 20th, c ays :—The dull monotony of the twenty days of since has fumi-hed much food for reflection to arTlerv and wi’l provide infinite study for those experts -who mav be held indirectly responsible for the pi-es«m unsatisfactory situ >fon—if nnf the siejre itself. If the Qrdn -nee Committee

had prespod its recommendations upon the Government. nd had made it imperative 'hat the Horae and Field Artillery should be re-armed with a weapon equal in range to that with which the other Powers were arming, we who are on the spot fpel confident

that, im-toad of being invested bv a parc n l of farmers, Sir George White’s force would at least, have be°n established on ti e Drakensberg But, though our artillery has been devotedly

Rpryed throughout, we have. whenever we have talari the field, h-’en fo outranged hy the fire of the enemy’s gur<R that it has her n imnns-ihle *r> fnrmu-

1 -'to anv movement that wou 7 d g-ivn us the advan f nc*e necessary to initiate n f irw Tfl m vo. Thus wp have found ourse I ve=« boxed m\ exposed ‘o the fire of 30 guns, f o v hie 1 -, if it had not been for the , im r lv arrival of the eaval prune, we should have been j powerless to reply.