Cable mem&ges dealing with -interesting or exciting events err, as a nil., an the side of brevity or ba-dnaes. Rut though the details we publish to-day of the attack on C'ronja's army by the British troopa under Lord Kitchener are all too short, one o! the brilliant descriptions by the special war correspondents atthe front will surpass, in powerful pourtrayalof one of th» most fearful incidents of the war, the few aea te&cea in this morning's war news. Tha

situation extorts one's admiration and one's pity. Crmfe, teiamed in betuwi the itißep h&nfc- of tha riverbed m which his force is encamped, "stormed at by shot and shell" from some of the \mvwafc pn_» in our possession in South Africa., is in fr plight from which it would be no d*J»gy-ce* for hdm to extricate h-msalf by »um*id«\ But jhai da-fljjer (*i \w pftafriiffl. **J» wishes of his araay. "&# tsm W4 appeals of his wife, who is sharing wi-sh hip* the perils of th«a. ewawignt -aii-sfi M to raHn-afc W* iron "A*ft4 I"** said, 'Fight on! Fight oq!'" Hi l "* overmastering will crushes down the desire of hi* t loops tfl yiahj. .o the inevitable and compeh* them. \q still oifer I resistance in an apparently hopeless contest. I Though his men must; fall by scores, and his laager is -wrapped in flame, he fights "with fren-sied w4 tragiq courage,'' and' a dauntless determination 4tfies fafe. The "I4aa oi Soutb Africa," js ploying his right to the name. Croaje dmrye-i no favours at the hands of the British troop.,' for in the campaign of l§§o-pl he outraged every rule of war, and during the past few months he has proved that he plgys tho -War game to win as best he can, earing littlv fpr the niceties observed by civilised Power?, Against his name an our history h&v?.to. be. put parks that no heroism can effqce. U§ commanded the Boers at the massacre pf a, British lament- «*> BrotfkUurst Sprot- At the siege of Potphffgti'Qem. m«m who Iwd sur rendered were put by him to work in %he, Boer t-rencbfs, <& that seyeyal were Wiled by tb§ §he}hr and bnl>ts of their b§sis||pd countrymen, and for a week after the armU stioe was agreed upon, he kept the wretched garrison in of the imt.. He de feated Dr. 