There are now 180 cases, all within last month.

Answer fully.

I am keeping everything secret for the present till I know your plans.' Much allowance is to be made for a man who is staggering under the mental shock of defeat and the physical exertions which Buller had endured.

That the Government made such allowance is clear from the fact that he was not instantly recalled.

And yet the cold facts are that we have a British General, at the head of 25,000 men, recommending another General, at the head of 12,000 men only twelve miles off, to lay down his arms to an army which was certainly very inferior in numbers to the total British force; and this because he had once been defeated, although he knew that there was still time for the whole resources of the Empire to be poured into Natal in order to prevent so shocking a disaster.