Cape Mounted Rifles. Kaffrarian Mounted Rifles. Montmorency's Scouts (200). Brabant's Horse (1200). Border Horse. Frontier Mounted Rifles. Queenstown Volunteers. Cape Garrison Artillery. Two Naval 12-pounders. OTHER TROOPS WITH LORD ROBERTS. 21st Brigade. Battalions not known. (Brigades not known.) 2nd Berkshire. 1st Royal Sussex. 1st Suffolk. 1st Cameron Highlanders. C.I.V. Infantry. Roberts's Horse. Kitchener's Horse. Two Squadrons Imperial Light Horse. 7th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry. C.I.V. Mounted Infantry. Ceylon Mounted Infantry. Lumsden's Horse. Lord Loch's Horse. 43rd, 65th, 86th, and 87th Howitzer Batteries. 2nd, 5th, 8th, 9th, 17th, 38th, 39th, 68th, and 88th Field Batteries. (Parts of 8th, 9th, and 11th Divisions.) Four naval 4.7-in. guns. Part of Siege Train. Towards the end of April the authorities found that the situation was growing in interest as in difficulty. In the south-east of the Free State Colonel Dalgety and his small but truculent band had become the pivot round which British and Free Staters were manoeuvring, and the red drama of war on the north and west of Wepener was becoming tragic as that of the region around Mafeking. Developments on a large and complicated scale were taking place, developments not as might be imagined in the direction of Pretoria, but for the purpose of catching the enemy in the northern and eastern portion of the Free State, and dealing with as much of him as possible before proceeding to larger things. There were now several separate columns on the march, each and all so arranged that, at a given moment and at a given place within a very short time they could concentrate for purposes of battle when battle should be imminent, and with a view to mopping up such Boer commandos as might chance to step in between the fangs of the British lion. (We are already aware that the Boer commandos in this region were far too knowing, and the anxious fangs eventually snapped on nothing at all! Still a vast mass of the foe was held in the south-east of the Free State while plans for the great advance northwards were being elaborated.)