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At last the pressure had become so
severe that the enemy had to weaken the most essential part of
their general position in order to relieve it. The object of the
operations had really been attained when Clements found himself
back at Arundel once more. French, the stormy petrel of the war,
had flitted on from Cape Town to Modder River, where a larger prize
than Colesberg awaited him. Clements continued to cover Naauwport,
the important railway junction, until the advance of Roberts's army
caused a complete reversal of the whole military situation.
CHAPTER 15.
SPION KOP.
Whilst Methuen and Gatacre were content to hold their own at the
Modder and at Sterkstroom, and whilst the mobile and energetic
French was herding the Boers into Colesberg, Sir Redvers Buller,
the heavy, obdurate, inexplicable man, was gathering and organising
his forces for another advance upon Ladysmith. Nearly a month had
elapsed since the evil day when his infantry had retired, and his
ten guns had not, from the frontal attack upon Colenso.


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