The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
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ENGLAND WAS UNPREPARED
Duke of Cambridge Grieves Over
Loss of Valuable Lives.
RADICAL REFORMS ARE NEEDED
The Morning Post Asks What Will
Come of Such Muddling if Great
Britain Should Ever Fight
a Mightier Foe
RADICAL REFORMS ARE NEEDED

London November 11.-(4:sO a. m)-com-
plete silence has again fallen upon affairs
in South Africa. The British public must
perforce be content with the brief stereo-
typed reports which the censor allows to
filter through from Capetown. That this
condition of things is no longer due to
pressure of work or defective cables has
been amply proved. The Eastern Tele-
graph company reckons that the real delay
in transmission is about two days. 1t is
evident, therefore, that the censorship is re-
sponsble for the other two days of delay
which seems to befall all the dispatches.
Moreover, the Daily Telegraph announces
that its appropriated" dispatch from
Iadysmith dated Monday, which the war
office published on Tuesday, was not de-
livered in Fleet street until yesterday F'ri-
day. morning. 1t is believed that the war
office received further dispatches last even
ing, but nothing has been published
AT banquet in the city of London yester-
day the Duke of Cambridge, speaking of
the war, said
I'VE ought never to have allowed our
selves to be In the position in which the
outbreak of war found US. could cry over
the valuable lives which might have been
spared had we been better prepared"
1t is said that General Butler never ex-
pected to commence the campaign before
Christmas, and it now looks as though this
would be the case.
VIII Muddle Through 1t
Certainly no artillery can reach Durham
before November a. and without additional
guns an advance from Estcourt would be
impossible. No doubt, as Lord Salisbury
said in a recent speech, England will mud
die through it," and yet another illustra-
tion of mudding has become apparent IN
the fact that gunnery instructors have only
AUST arrived at Woolwich arsenal for IN
struction in siege train duties. Although
hurried preparations are being made TO
prepare the siege trains, the fact that the
men are at Davenport and the guns at
Woolwich seems to show that the idea OF
the siege was quite an afterthought. Inc
Morning Post says:
.'What will come of such muddllng II we
ever come to fighting foe able to turn II
ito advantage? Some radical reforms are
still needed in our mobilization arrange
ments.
1.-The statement from Ladysmith that the
British guns don't reply to the Boer aftll-
1ery because the concrete beds of the guns
nave not vet hardened is Interpreted IN
some quarters to mean simply that the
British are outstanding their ammunition,
as the Boer fire is only trick to get the
British to waste shells.
Among the few items that have arrived
from the Cane today is one saying that the
Roers are planting more guns in the mis-
surrounding Ladysmth. All the cofre-
spondents in the beleaguered town are sac
and anxious to reopen communication
gentleman who visited Nicholsons Mex al
fer the engagement counted twenty-five
KILLED and seventy wounded
The latest adyices from Kimberley, dated
November O. say that all is well there,
though an explosion had been heard' anu
the supposition was that the Beers hau
RIown IN the railway culvert south of
Dronfield. . :, ta ~.
warned Dr. Leyds, whose headquarters is
at Brussels, that Belgium Is a neutrai
country. 80,
A eorus of engineers from Gibraltar will
accompany the siege train to the Cape and
the men will be used in mounting tne heaV-
lest guns dn embrasures. wo pautalons oI
mounted infantry, every man selected lor
his riding and shooting qualities, VIII De
sent to the front.
The Bayarian Sails
london. November 10.-The troopship
Bavarian sailed from Queenstown this
evening for the Cape, carrying the Con-
nauo,,f Rangers the First battalion of the
Taova1 Dublin Fusileers and a contingent
of miscellaneous troops, altogether over
1000 men, having large quantity OF stores.
A large crowd witnessed and cheered the
departure of the vessel
Mobilization of Reserves
London, November 1O.-Orders Tor uhe
mobilization of the necessary reserves Tor
the supplementary division announced yes
ferday by Lord Wo1sey We're issued this
evening. The men, will join between No
yenfber 13 and 90
To Join the Beers
Bertn November 10.-It Is ascertained
afat Major Won Reitzenstein. winner of the
dong distance military ride from Berlin to
Vienna has gone to the Transvaal to join
the Beers.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
President Will Look After Cuba and
Porto Rico
New York, November 10.-A special to the