Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1900 — ROBERTS ARRAIGNS BULLER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROBERTS ARRAIGNS BULLER.

Commanding General Scathingly Reviews Spion Kop Movement. All England is agog ever Lord Roberts’ dispatch, in which he severely arraigns Sir Redvers Buller and Sir Qharles Warren. After sketching Gen. Buller’s intentions, as copimunieated to Sir Charles Warren, who commanded the whole force, Lord Roberts points out that Gen. Warren seems to have concluded, after consultation with his officers, that the flanking movement ordered by Gen. Buller was impracticable, and, therefore, so changed the plan of advance as to necessitate the capture and retention of Spion Kop. Lord Roberts continues: “As Warren ■■onsidered i* impossible to make the wide

flanking movement which was recommended, if not actually prescribed in the secret instructions, he should, forthwith, bgve acquainted Buller with the. course he proposed to adopt. There is nothing to show- whether he did so or not. But it is only fair to Warren to point out thatBuller" appears throughout to have been aware of what was happening.” Further on he says: “But whatever faults Warren may have committed, the failure must also be attributed to the 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 assumption of responsibility by a subordinate officer.”

GENERAL BULLER.