The morning call., 1890-10-28
WARDS STATEMENT.

Abuse and Neg,ect Of the Rear Guard of
stanleY's Fxnedition.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The correspondent of
the Herald saw Herbert Ward to-day in
regard to Stanley's reply TO Barttelot.
He dceS not consider it his fault that he and
Stanley are not on good terms. He said
that though he was with the rear guard he
was absent most of the time either taking
dispatches to the coast from BarttelOt for
the committee or in charLe of the camp at
BJnGola, which IS 1000 miles from the
coast, and is not in a position to talk
Stanley's letter of Instructions stated that
BarttelOt would receive 600 carriers from
Iipuu, but nothing was received from the
latter. Promise alter promise detained the
rear guard until it was impossible
to move. 10 have marched from 1ambuYa
as Stanley suggested, was impossible, as he
Lad left the bulk Of the expedition, includ-
ing ammunition. to be carried through q
dense forest by men utterly unreliable, of
acknowledged bad character and weakest in
body.
From the time the tragedy in the rear
guard commenced, Tip Il Tib continued to
prucrastinate and the Zanzibaris and
SoudaneSe fell sick and died. No news
reached the Yambuya rear guard, and as
month after month passed, and as 1Ippu
sent no aid the camp became poweTleSS TO
act Stanley calculated that he would re-
turn IN five months after his departure.
Nine months after Stanley left, BartelOt
sent Jameson to make last effort to get
carriers from Tippu and sent Ward to the
coast with letter of instructions to
the committee. The latter replied that
if they could not march in accordance with
orders they should remain at Y Yambuya until
Stanley arrived there or sent fresh orders.
II was noticeable that Ward. in referring to
Barttelots mode of death, called it 'mur-
DER and speaking of the relief of Emin
cid - IHhpr mir NO 10 -
The Central News Association has re-
eeyed a letter from Walter James BaTttelot
called forth by the Hprald's interyft~ Win
Stanley. BartteIot says: 1t is of course
for Stanley to decide when and how
l. is incumbent on him to reply
to the charges contain ed in the recently pnb-
lished volume Of letters and diaries. For
the moment [ am content to say that STAN
lev had not attempted to meet or indicated
any immediate intention of meeting the in
dirtment against his own acts IN connection
with III rear guard
NEW YORK, Oct. 27-Paul B. du Chaillu,
the African explorer, says: "I saw all of
Stanley's lieutenants in London after their
return from Africa, and l know from many
Of their ulterances that there was
bis men, The present controversy
will bring out more unpleasant facts
than the people imagine. Nearly all of
Stanley's aids will write for the publication
with the agreement that nothing shall be
published until six months after his book
appears. The published statement that
Bdrttelot was shot by a chief who was jeal-
ous of the white mans attention to the
blacks wife is absurd"
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The Evening Globe, in
referring to the recently issued biography
of Barttelot, says the book is not only a
vindicatiOn of the brave soldier and
gentleman who died at his
post of duty, but formal
indictment of another Englishman whom
Englishmen hold in honor, which,
if the Indictment is we'll founded.
must be gravely tarnished and
impaired. "The question is" the
Globe says, show far Stanley is answerab!e
for the fate of his second in command, and
whether or not lie endeavored to blacken
his Lieutenauts reputation to save his