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paler? If so, you should try The full text of Lord Roberts’ report

° Sco {} 8 Ear sien. | criticizing General Redvers Buller and ; . - s | Sir Charles Warren for their manage- sD Od « ae . ~ It s | oth food and medicine. ment of the operations at Spion Kop ; It corrects disease. It makes | is as follows: delicate children grow in Army Headquarters, South Africa, the right way—taller,

Camp, Diekel Drift, Riet River, February 13, 1900, stronger, heavier, healthier.

My Lord,—I have the honor to sub- mit, for your Lordship’s information, | despatches from General Sir Redvers isis St Balter, describing the advance across 7 the Tugela River on January 17 and

A By law for levying nd specity- 18, 1900, and the capture and evacu- Ing the rate of assessment ON ation of the Spion Kop position on Real Estate and Per onal Proper- January 23 and 24, as well as certain ty in the City of Charlottetown minor operations between January 19 ee and 24, on the right vastern line of

for general Civic purposes under 34.°%.°" 7 BE

Statute 51 Victoria, Chapter 19, | advance.

The plan of operations is not very Be it enacted by the City Council of theCity | clearly described in the despatches

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ist. ‘The rate of assessment on Real Estate themselves, but it may be gathered for general Civic purposes under said Statute, from them and the accompanying doc- for the year commencing the first day ot Jan- ik ioe . . mary. A D 1900, is hereby specified and Uments themselves that the original fixed at the rate of one per centon every dol- aaah s ™ er > Tne lar of the value of Real Estat , as assessed by intention was to cross the lugela at or te Assessors of the said Cit¥ of Charlotte- near Trichardt’s Drift, and thence by

tawn in the General Assessinent Book and . a ng ee rT: ” Valuation Roll of all Real Estate and Person- following the road past Fair View

ai Property liable to taxation in said City, ! and “‘Acton Homes,” to gain the open

and of ali persons liable to pay Poli Tax ‘ “os , therein, made and duly returned by them on plain north of Spion Kop, the Boer

the twelfth day of April, A D 1900, } soas : ; ? $v 2nd. The rate of assessment on Personal position in front of Potgieter s Drift Property for such general Civic purposes, for | being too strong to be taken by direct the year commencing the first day of January, |! 1. hol | AD 1900, and ending the thirty-first day oi attack. The whole force, ess one Becember, A D 1900, is hereby specified and | brigade, was placed under the orders = ’ . of Sir Charles Warren, who, the day

fixed at the rate of seven-eighths of one per eent on every dollar of the yiulue of Personal | after he had crossed the Tugela, seems

Property as assessed by the Assessors of the

said City in the General Assessment) book and Valuation Rol! made and duly | to have consulted his general and prin- turned by them as aforesa'd.

JAMES Wa ltBURTON, | cipal staff officers, and to have come to - ws haw | the conclusion that the flanking move- 5—dy 2 CityClerk. | ment which Sir Redvers Buller had ——--_____ | mentioned in his secret instructions

A By-law for allowing a Rate of was impractical on account of the in- Discount on the Assessments ON | sufficiency of supplies. He accord- Real Estate and Personal Proper- | ingly decided to advance by the more

ty in the City of Charlottetown direct road leading north-east, and

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i 1 r a n baie for general civic purposes for the | «Three Tree Hill.” The selection of current year ending the thirty-| this road necessitated the capture and first day of December, A. D, 1900, | retention of Spion Kop, but whether it Be it enacted by the City Council of the City | would have been equally rere ws ef Charlottetown as follows :— occupy Spion Kop, had the line of ad- ist. A discount at the rate of 'Twoand One-| ,, a ae ee naif Per Cont shall be allowed ‘o all taxpayers | Vance indicated by Sir Redvers Buller who shall, on or before the Sixteenth day of |} been followed, is not stated in the cor- July next, A D 1900, pay tothe City Clerk, at . .? - nis office, the taxes severally due by them for | respondence. As Sir Charles Warren and Personal) considered it impossible to make the wide flanking movement which was

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the current year on Real Estate Property for civic purposes. JAMES WAJ:BURTON,

Mayor. > : , ‘ M. DAVISON. recommended, if not actually pre City Clerk. | scribed, in his secret instructions, he

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4 By-Law for Levying and Specify- ing the Rate of Assessment on Real Estate and Personal Pro- perty and Poll in the City of Charlottetown for a Waterworks Fund, under Statute 50 Vic- toria, Chapter 8,

Be it enacted by the City Cou iell of the City ef Charlottetown as follows :—

Ist, Therate of Assessment on Real Estate feca Waterworks Fund under said Statute for the year commencing the first day of Jan- wary, A D 190, and ending the thirty-first day ef December, A. D. 1900, is hereby specified and fixed at the rateof one-eighth of one per egnt on every dollar of the value of Real Es- tate as assessed by the Assessors of the said @ity of Charlottetown in the general Assess- ment Book and Valuation Rol! of all Real Es- tate and Personal Property liatle to taxation in said City, and ali persons lia vie to pay Poll Tax therein, made and duly returned by them en the twelith day of April, A- D. 190.

2nd. The rateof Asséssmen! on Personal Property for such Water Work 5 Fund for the year commencing the first day ol January A.D 1900, and ending the thircy-first day of BHecember, A. D., 1900, is hereby specified and fixed at the rate of one-eighth of one per cent enevery dollar of the value of Personal Proper- ty as assessed by the Assessors of the said City tn the said General Assessment Book and Va- ‘uation Roll, made and duly ret irned by them asaforesaid.

rd. The amount of Poll Tax to be paid by every person returved by the said Assessors is said General Assessment Book and Valu- ation Roll as liable thereto for such Water Works Fund under said Statute, for the year commencing the first day of January, A. D. KOO. and ending the #ist day ol yecember,A D 1900, is hereby specified and fixed atthe sum ef Ten Cents (0c) on the poll oO! every person £0 assessed and returned as afo esaid.

JAME3 WAKBUBTON, Mayor.

should have at once acquainted Sir Redvers Buller with the course of ac- tion which he proposed to adopt. There is nothing to show whether he did so or not, but it seems only fair to Sir Charles Warren to point out that Sir Redvers Buller appears throughout to have been aware o. what was hap- pening. On _ several occasions he was present during the operations. He re- peatedly gave advice to his subordin- ate commander, and on the day after the withdrawal from Spion Kop he re- sumed the chief command.

As regards the withdrawal of the troops from Spion Kop position which, though occupied almost without oppo- sition in the early morning of January 24th, had to be held throughout the day under an extremely heavy fie, and the retention of which had become essential to the relief of Lady- smith, I regret that 1 am unable to concur with Sir Redvers Buller in thinking that Lieut-Colone! Thorney- croft exercised a wise discretion in or- dering the troops to retire. Even ad- mitting that due preparations may not have been made for strengthening the positicn during ihe night, reorganizing the defence, and bringing up artillery —in regard to which Sir Charles War- ren’s report does not altogether bear out Sir Redvers Bullers’ contention—

admitting also that the senior officers

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to support and reinforce them, I am of the opinion that Lieut.-Colonel lhorneycroft’s assumption of responsi- bility and authority was wholly inex- cusable. During the night the enemy’s tire, if it did not cease altogether, could not have been formidable, and,

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though lamp signalling was not pos- sible at the time, owing to the supply of oii having failed, it would not have taken more than two or three hours at most for Lieut.-Colonel Thorneycroft to communicate by messenger with

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Warren, and to receive a reply. Major-General Coke appears to have left Spion Kop at 9.30 p. m. for the purpose of consulting with Sir Charles Warren, and up to that hour the idea of a withdrawal had not been enter- tained. Yetalmost immediately after Major-General Coke’s departure Lieut-

Colonel Thorneycroft issued an order |

without reference to superior authority, which upset the whole plan of oper-

ations, and rendered unavailing the sacrifices which had already been made to carry it into effect. On the

other hand, it is only right to state that Lieut. Colonel to have behaved in a very gallant man- ner throughout the day, and it was doubtless due, in a great measure, to his exertions and example that the troops continued to hold the summit of the hill until directed to retire.

The conduct of Captain Phillips, Brigade- Major of the roth Brigade, on the cccassion in question, is deserv- ing of high commendation. He did his best to rectify the mistake which was being made, but it was too late. Signalling communication was not re- established until 2.30 a. m., on Jann- ary 25, and by that time the naval guns could not have reached the sum- mit of the hill before daybreak. Major- General Coke did not return, and Lieut.-Colonel Thorneycroft had gone away. Moreover, most of the troops had begun to leave the hill, and the working parties, with the half company of Royal Engineers, had also with- drawn.

It is to be regretted that Sir Charles Warren did not himself visit Spion Kop during the afternoon or evening, knowing as he did that the state of affairs there was very critical, and that the loss of the position would involve the failure ofthe operations. He was, consequently, obliged to summon Major-General Coke to his headquart- ers in the even.ng in order that he might ascertain how matters were go- ing on, and the command on Spion Kop thus devolved on Lieut.-Colonel Thorheycroft; but Major-General Coke was not aware of this. About midday, after instructions from Sir Redvers Buller, Sir Charles Warren had direct- ed Lieut.-Colonel Thorneycroft to as- sume command on the summit of the hill, with the temporary rank of Briga- dier-General, but this order was not communicated to Major-General Coke, who, until he left the position at 9.30 p. m., was under the impression that the command had devolved on Colon- el Hill, a senior officer, after Colonel Crofton had been wounded. Omis- sions or mistakes of this nature may be trivial in themselves, yet may exer- cise an important influence on the course of events; and I think that Sir Redvers Buller is justified in remark- ing that “there wasa want of organ- ization and system which acted mest unfavourably on the defence.”

The attempt to relieve Ladysmith, described in these despatcheés, was well devised, and I agree with Sir Redvers Buller in thinking that it ought

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Dated his 26th day of April, 1900.

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to have succeeded. That it failed may, in some measure, be cue to the difficulties of the ground and the com- manding positions held by the enemy —probably also to errors of judgment and want or administrative capacity en the part of Sir Charles Warren. But whatever faults Sir Charles Warren may have committed, the failure must also be ascribed tothe disinclination of the officer in supreme command to assert his authority and see that what he thought best was done, and also to the unwarrantable and needless as- sumption of responsibility by a sub- ordinate officer.

The gratifying feature in these des-

the troops throughout the operations. I have, etc., ROBERTS, Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, South Africa.

BOERS’ RESOURCES.

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|at Bloemfontein sends a long detailed communication in reference to the

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strength of the Boers, and their re- sources, from a ‘“‘high official of the Boer commissariat, through whose hands the returns passed.” It con-

to March 13 had lost 6,500 prisoners, 8,000 killed or wounded, 14,000 had slunk to their homes- They are ex- tremely short of wagons, and were short of wheat until their raid into the Wepener district, where the harvest had been the finest onrecord. Their

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mealies are in bad condition. Smoke- less powder for their big gun is al- most exhausted, but other stores and rifle ammunition are plentiful.

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