Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-10-14
EUROPE WATCHING
GREAT BRITAIN
Extent Of Latter's Military Prepar-
atoms Gets Special Attention.
RUSSIA's NAVAL BUDGET.
No Fears OF Continental Alliance
Against England The uttuaIIstIc
Quarrel-Note. OF the stage.

London, oct i4-G.ondon Gable Let.
ter. Copyrighted. 1893. by the Associated
Press.)-All Europe Is watching Great
britain at this crucial moment In hor
military Affairs. Foreign Statesmen
and military experts regard the result
Of the war with the Beers aa o. fore.
gone conclusion. what they scan with
such anxious interest D. Enrinnd's
tremendous preparations for the con.
test hy the result Of these efforts will
her strength be guagcd. In assembling
an army twice as large as that which
she sent 20 Crlmoa and considerably
greater than Wollington'a force nt
waterloo, England ls Offering an Illus.
uauon, for the nrst time In many de-
cades' OF her ability 10 fight on land
Although her naval strcnrth has Of
ten been demonstrated To advantage. il
mas stu been matter % doubt wheih-
or het mlltlfy arm could compare ia
vofably with that N continental ma.
lions, and In the thr0cs OF such "a test
ana night
Gangs OF men are working lncossant-
W al the ports that dot Enrtuud'r
shores, transforming liners into troup
shlp.' Largely augmented forces are
turning out ammunition and ordnance
STORES. some idea ~ the activity ia this
bfhhch can b. gained from the fact that
three million rounds OF ammunition Tor
small arms left Woolwlrh last week.
Although the manufacture OF the fa-
Nnfitc new bullet mark AVE." has hepn
retarded by an outbreak OF lead pdlH.
"hnH among the employees. this depart
mont o. working day and night. Tons
~ scrap zinc are being shipped to make
ghh for the war balloons. which uru be-.
tnB taken out on "a more extensive scale
uhl Win a more complete equipment
than ever before.
Meanwhile the mon FOR whom those
implements " war are being made are
pouring out Of barracks tp tho portu.
standing By 60 embark. drilling. and
nractcing ut targets every spare hour.
Ihc reserves are pouring into Alder
Hhot IN unhCruldpd patches ana Tee
shouldcfing their rifles ns 10 the trans
formation from ciyll 10 military Ufe
Mgie an every DAY occurrence.
The huge mobilization ut Aldorshot d.
now IN charge of Major General Thomas
Kelley kornry, iuapcrtur-gtuaflI OF
auxiliary forces and recruiting. who has
succeeded General Sir RcdvcrH nullor.
Al the work la new. II Is tho first time
that anything uf the Kind has been at
tempted since the short service system
went into eject a visit to AldcrrhOt
produces the Impression that everything
u going like clock work. but ID ia ~
early YET 10 express a definite opinion
Icgarding tho British mobilization. For
the reserves thtmaulves, who uru obliged
20 leave their wives and families on a
piutul pitlancc from the government.
much public sympathy has bean
aroused, vNemplifying the truth OF Rud-
yard kipllng's Jccr "A Special Train Tor
Atkins when the hand Begins to
y number Of reserves who were not
called out have asked to be allowed to
serve IN South Africa. and similar
spirit or spontaneous. practical patriot.
ism ~ seen on all sides Sir Hssiyrra
buffers forces include the flower " IN.
EhEiish nobility. The excellent Bosr
tuhtkHmnnHhip. combined with the fuct
that Il Is an unUrittcn rule In the mt.
lhh army that officers must always
stand under irc, even though tho mon
arc lylng down, makes mourning pruhl-
bic In many noble British home.
The admiralty iH. perhaps. more on
ttlal thun the army, especially uH Il o.
wen known that General Lord Garnet
Wolsclcy, chief does not
approve a system which gives the navy
huch iar-tvtchlng power ln trauHpI n Ing
troops, In lsA2. Grrat Britain dos.
patched lh.oo0 troops Ia three weeks To
AlcNnndrih, Egypt, a feat that elected
AtAhNAAHH' AAAAAAAAA hAAkAA OF count Won
Moltkc. but the task Of shipping NOR.
than 5000 men has no parallel In the
history Of England Already Tho w,
branches " the service are beginning L.
blame each other for various dc.aya but
II IT, scarcely apparent that there has
ASst bogn any serious lack 0f facilities.
The ship brokers have undoubtedly
worked something like corner On tho
admiralty, as they did during the His
phno-Am"ricnn war, aud tho recent
breakdown OF two transports is atiu tho
cause ~ considerable abuse OF tho nd-
miralty.
The Associated Press understnnds
that these two vessels were repeatedly
offered to the United States during mo
war with spain, but that owing IL the
nstutencsa Of the American naval feprs-
sentative they were never purchasNi
Inc most remarkable point IN can-
hectlon win the transport arrange
ments II that about eighty ships can b.,
taken Into the government servlcs with
out materially disturbing the shipping
trade.
The weakest point In the whole mo.
biliEatiOn seems 10 be tho army service
corps corresponding 10 the United
states oonllnlHeafy. The various sta
tlona have been gutted 60 obtain me
necessary officers and men. yet many
line officers assure the Associated Pres,
that the arrangements are graysly in
adequate Tor such a corps.
In this connection, the Naval and
Military Record says. 1T In quite clear
that II England had to provide a aec-
ond or third army corps FOR foreign
service, these or either OF Thorn. would
have to 80 without a full equlpment
That this unpleasant discovery viii
form the subject Of inquiry In parlin-
ment goes without .ayng"
The new hattleahip Bulwark Will be
launched ON october 20. She will have
been under construction less than seven
montha This viii create "a launching
time record ana a weight record for
time under construction, her dlsplnce.
ment being 1900 tons
The admiralty IN experimenting with
a new wireless telegraphy invention. the
contrivanco " W, II, Sullivan. which
Includes a device for determining dis
tunccs between ships. There ~ con-
siderable speculation as 20 whether Sig
nor Mnrconl VIII BE- able TO induce
tho United states 10 adopt his system.
The Associated preas IL authorized
to deny reports printed here, under "a
New York date. that the three powers
over the claims OF British subjects for
damages during the bOmbardmcnt.
The report regarding combination Of
France and Russia against ENGLAND
aud United States are ridiculed. though
IL can be- asserted without giving any
credence to any such stories, that Rus.
sia's naval credit for 1900. amounting
as IL does 90 N, 500 600 rouhles, has cree