It was really a strategic and almost bloodless move upon the part of the Boers.

It is not the business of guerillas to fight pitched battles.

Methuen pushed for the south, having been informed that Kroonstad had been captured.

Finding this to be untrue, he turned again to the eastward in search of De Wet.
That wily and indefatigable man was not long out of our ken.

On June 14th he appeared once more at Rhenoster, where the construction trains, under the famous Girouard, were working furiously at the repair of the damage which he had already done.