Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
WAR TALK
IS SUPREME
British People Show Their
Patriotic Spirit
INOCULATI0N FOR FEVER
Is Being Tried on all Troops
Now Being Sent to South
African Borders.
MANY MEN VOLUNTEERING
They Write From All Parts Of Her
MajeSty's Kingdom--Gen. Symons
Has Had Experience in the Kind
of Fighting Being Carried on.

London. Oct. 21.-(Copyright, 1899. by
the Associated Press.)-War talk reigns
supreme everywhere in England. Lon
don is teeming with people, notable so
cially but what cares London for society
when troops are piling into transports
and when everybody from her majesty
down is saying Goodbye, God bless
you," and Good luck to YOU
The newsboys are fairly revelling III
their 'orrible slaughters" and the or
binary pacific stock brokers talk inces-
sanity of stl tlategic and military tactics.
There is nothing of the traditional shop
keeper eemen visible in British char
acter since the first note of alarm. The
news Of yesterdays fighting in Natal
made tremendous sensation and the
pluck and dash of the Kings Royal rifles
and@the Dublin fusileers. greatly stimu-
lated th,e universal enthusiasm.
The total British force at Camp Glen
coe, according to reports imm ediately
preceding the announcement of the en-
gagementa include the Eighteenth hus-
sars, the Natal mounted volunteers, the
first battalion of the Leicestershrc regi-
ment. the FIRST Kings Royal rifles, the
Second Dublin fusileers. the Dovershire
regiment, the Dorsetshire regiment, sew
eral companies Of mounted infantry and
three field batteries, total of about 4,0oo
men. opposed to a Boer force estimated
at twice that number and possibly
reaching a higher figure. This very dis
parity between the conlbatants gives an
additional element of fascination 10 the
history of the day. Probably no other
officer in the British army has seen more
fighting than General Sir William Penn
Symonds the commander of the fourth
division under General Sir George Stew
art White. Certainly none has seen
more in India and the campaigns in Bur-
nah and Zululand revealed his splendid
qualities in the most brilliant fashion.
+ The forthcoming parliamentary bye
election in Tower hamlets. London, is be-
ing fought strictly on Boer and anti
Boer lines The liberal candidate, Har-
old Spender, declares that the war was
brought about as much byrNhe blunder-
ing of the secretary of state for the colo
MES, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, as by the
obstinacy of the Transvaal government.
tidate. William Guthrie. asserts that the
scandalous arrogance of the Beers was
alone responsible for the hostillties. Both
Join in wish that victory may attend
British arms but this does not deter the
electors from creating little war of their
own.
One of the most curious features Of the
mobiliza ton has been the nocuating of
the troops against fever. This was not
made compulsory, but the company
commanders were Instructed to urge the
men to allow themselves to be inocu-
lated and most of them have undergone
the ordeal. Although medical men differ
greatly as to the utility of the virus the
percentage Of fever in the British ranks
will be eagerly watched by foreign
military experts. Should it turn out to
be remarkably small it is more than
likely that all the European troops will
be inoculated before going to countries
infested by the enteric fever germs.
The war office continues to receive Of
fers for volunteer service from all parts
of the country. Colonel Sir Charles Ed
ward Howard Vincent has officially re-
paated his proposal TO raise 1000 marks
men for service in South Africa at his
own expense. Colonel Vincent is to COM
mand one of the queens Westminster
yolunteers, one Of the crack regiments,
and eyer since his offer was first pub
lis,ied lie has been Inundated with re-
uuests from those anxious to serve
Many of the applicants are Of good So
oe;,;np sipal,,6iufy Savaral cjarDy.
men, They hail from points as far apar.
as Bombay, Halifax and San Francisco.
A Canadian offered Colonel Vincent to