Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — THINK BULLER WAS TRAPPED. [ARTICLE]

THINK BULLER WAS TRAPPED.

Dispatches from Durban Indicate the Boers Knew of the Advance. Dispatches from Durban show what has been thought likely, that the Boers weil knew of Gen. Buller’s crossing the Tugela and did not interfere with him in order to get him entangled as they did. The fact that Spion kop’s first ridge was abandoned by the Boers after one volley makes it most likely that the abandonment was a mere ruse t,o hire the British to the next position, which was cov« ered by the Boor guns.