GENERAL BULLER AT HOME. HIS SPEECH AT SOUTHAMPTON. DIFFICULTIES OF THE CAMPAIGN. LONDON, 12th November. General Buller has been accorded the Freedom of Southampton. In the course of a speech on tho occasion, the General declared that the army had encountered far greater ' difficulties in South Africa than wero previously experienced against any civilised enemy. For one thing, the Boors' range of vision was two miles better than' that qf the average Englishman. The ability of the Boers to converse with the Kaffirs was another great advantage. He was confident, he said, that no other nation could have conducted a similar campaign* successfully.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 116, 13 November 1900, Page 5
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