The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-11
LONDON TOWN GOSSIP
VICTORY OF THE SUDAN RAISES
THE SPIRITS OF ENGLISHMEN.
Suffering from Heat and a Million in
East London without Water-Our
Chewing Gum BOycOtted.
Copyright. 1898, by the Associated Press.)

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
LONDON, Sept. 10.-The event of the
week, the capture of Omdurman, and, in
cidentally, of Khartum by the Anglo
Egyptian army under Gen. Sir Herbert
Kitchener, has produced a feeling of ex-
ultation throughout Great Britain, which
is in marked contrast with the gloomy fore
bodings of the past months, during which
everyone has been finding fault with the
government and it was generally believed
that the country's rivalries were over
matching her at every point. The complete
ness of the victory has had a most ex-
hiliarating effect and has undoubtedly i'm
pressed the continental nations. while the
cordial praise cabled from the American
press has been much appreciated here.
The understanding arrived at between
Great Britain and Germany allows the
formers plans in South Africa to be carried
out without fear of German-Boer alliance,
and the dismissal of Ii Hung Chang from
the Chinese Foreign Office, following the
Cars peace proposals, is taken as evidence
of the complete triumph of British dirlcm-
acy in the far East. Vanity Fair. an ardent
supporter of the government, in a gleeful
review of the situation, says: Looking
eastward we see pauperized Russia ready
to climb down at our DESIRE"
And last Of ALL continues Vanity Fair,
which has throughout been most ingenious
and persistent in it's abuse and misrepre-
sentation of America, ''if we look at Amer
lea we are confronted with the sight of
friendly nation ready to back us up when
ever our desires are mutual. We will say
now that the horizon is clear and that old
England instead Of having taken a 10 wer
place, sits still higher pinnacle"
While the transport and commissariat de-
partments of the British army, as exempli-
fed by the admirable conduct of the Sudan
campaign, appear to be beyond reproach on
account of active service, there is no lack
of allegations that there was a serious
breakdown during the recent maneuvers on
Salisbury plain. In the first place,
owing to the rescuro es of the War Office
being inadequate to the demands, the con-
tract for the catering was given to Sir
Thomas Upton, and if the reports are be-
lievable the soldiers suffered considerable
privations. Indeed, it would SEEM some of
them suffered so much that they committed
offenses, preferring prison to the treatment
they were receiving on Salisbury plain.
This is corrobCrated by the fact that the
military M prisons Prisons IN the neighborhood were
that they would not receive any further
prisoners. Besides this the sufferers from
sickness and accidents complain of great
neglect. They say they were without food
and drink for hours, or until civilians sue
cored them.
trips to khartum, which this week has
demonstrated to be less than nine days from
London. Last Saturday General Kitchener
dispatched Colonel Hope from Omdurman,
the former Dervish stronghold on the River
Nile, near Khartum, to Cairo, and he &C
complished the journey III eighty-seven
A long cabled interview with Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain, the British secretary of state
for the colonies, who is now in the United
States on visit to his wife's parents, has
been received with incredulity by the Eng
lish press. The Daily Chronicle says: THAT
he should have talked of a railroad through
the TranSvaal, from Khartum to the cape
or to have disclosed the Anglo-German I'M
Outstanding or performed other feats of
like description, is beyond believing. If
these stories are true, then, indeed, Lord
Salisbury's 'blazors are quenched forever
10 the white light Of Mr. chamberlain's in
Tropical weather continues here and on
the continent. The thermometer in London
on Thursday last reached 80 degrees, which
is the record for the summer, while the re-
turns for the past thirty years do not show
any previous record above eighty-seven for
the month of September The whole of
Great Britain continues to be without rain.
and the almost unbreathable atmosphere in
London is intensified by a sultry white mist,
which is so thick on the Thames that the
steamboats, had to stop running. There
nave been lnnumerable cases of SunStroke
and apoplexy, and the iron works of Rir-
mingham and the Black country are CLOSING
on account of the heat Fires are occurring
among the trees and in the grass on the
commons.
The conditions prevailing in the East End
of London are especially pitiable There has
been the u.,ual water famine, and for three
weeks over one million people, to say moth
ing of animals. have been suffering from the
shortage. The situation is daily growing
worse, feverS are breaking out and as the
indications of rain are a scarce as the signs
Of snow, the supply of water has already
ises to be further shortened.
The heat has also been very great in
Paris, where an ice famine prevails and the
French soldiers have been suffering so
much during, the army maneuvers that they
had to be abandoned; The Paris meteoro-
logical authorities hold that a sun spot is
responsible for the extreme heat
1t now appears that Mr. George N. Cur
zon, the former parliamentary secretary for
the Foreign Office and newly appointed
viceroy of India, will not be raised to the
peerage before he goes to India.
The health authorities have issued a
warning against the use of American chew
ing gum. which is becoming the rage among
children in the East End. The authorities
consider II more dangerous than ice cream
which the ltaliens sell In the streets, and
against which there has been a rigorous
crusade.
To-day which is now edited by Barrier
Paine instead of Jerome K Jerome devotes
pages this week to the exposure of the al
legged "Klondike fasco." and especially to
| the reported corruption or officials. 1T pub
lishes a letter from prominent English
1 man, who says: THE police land Office
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