Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-01
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/ LONDON, June 30-The yellow
Peril, as the Chinese crisis is now call
ed here, is, for the moment, relegated
to second place. Public interest in the
hospital scandals in South Africa SO
absorbs attention that no amount of Of
fetal quibbling can suppress it. The
/ treatment of thousands of wounded and
/ fever stricken British soldiers in the
| field threatens to become as serious a
lmatter for public agitation as the Amer
| lean military camps were after the
| Spanish-American war If Lord Rob
erts was not so frankly willing to shoul-
der the major part of the responsibility
] the cutlery which Mr. Burdett-Coutts's
letter raised would we'll nigh swamp
/ the government. But few people care
to seriously criticise the successful gen
eral whose consideration. for his men.
/ especially the wounded, is a by-wcrd
in the army and elsewhere. The action
of Lord Lansdowne, the secretary of
state for war, in submitting the criti-
cism of Lord Roberts himself, was a
master stroke Of politics which tenn
porarily saved the governments head
However, if the proposed Parliamentary
committee finds
/ The War Office Failed
to adopt necessary medical precautions
it will take the Conservatives long
time to re-estabIish their prestige with
thousands in Great Britain who have
suffered bitterly through the loss and
illness OF relatives in South Africa 1t
has been hard enough for those be-
reaved to grin and bear" the long cas-
ualty lists, but, with the suspicion that
lives were needlessly wasted, there is
no longer any restraint to their sorrow
or limit to their indignation.
A significant sign of the times is the
announcement in the July issue of the
Nineteenth Century that some of the
most distinguished men, regardless of
party, have agreed to join an associa-
ton with the object of fixing steadily
public attention on the lessons of the
war, foremost among which is the
necessity for examining the
Defense of the Empire
and the need of conducting the various
departments of state on ordinary bust
ness principles. Among those who
have promised to become members are
Lord Rosebery, the Earl of Leven and
Melville, the Earl of Rose, the Earl of
| Clanwilliam, Viscount Peel. the Bishop
OF London (the Rt. Rev. Mandell Creigh-
ton, D. D., Cardinal Vaughan, Sir
/, Wemyss Reid, Sir Howard Vincent and
a large number of members of the
House of Commons and army officers.
/ Viscount Deerhurst, colonel of vol
| unteer battalion of the Worcester regi-
ment, who married an American, Miss
Virginia Bonynge, daughter of Mr..
Charles w. Bonynge, formerly of San
Francisco, in testifying before a parlia-
mentary committee this week, brought
home with startling force the rotten
ness of the material supplied TO the
army. He declared that after paving
an extra price for shoes for the battal-
ion, after one march they were like
paper bags, with shreds of leather in
side, and you could easily put your
finger through the majority of the
soles.'
An amusing story is current regard
ing Harry Beaumont, one of the best
dressed London clubmen, who married
Miss Jessie Fellowes, of New York. and
went to South Africa as an officer of
the Cheshire Yeomanry 1t is said that
he requisitioned a Boer house for his
own use, but,
Before Occupying 1t.
he "showered the building with insect
ipowder" and ''drenched it with Eau de
Cologne"
How tired the people of England are
| becoming of such kid-gloved methods
OF warfare could be judged the other
night when Sir Eveleyn Wood. the adj
| Jutant general to the forces. who IS
| VIGOROUSLY influenced by feminine ad-
vice, received a hostile reception at the
hands of such a broad-minded body as
| the Institution of Mechanical Engip-
GERS.
| Somewhat on these lines Sir Claude
NJ. Macdonald, the British minister to
China, is coming in for criticism. ii
is frequently said that he is a better
hand at afternoon teas than in pre-
serving the empires interests in China.
A local paper at Tien Ism once said it
was evident Sir Claude's motto was:
l do not care what her flag is so long
as she is fair
1t is not generally known that last
September Sir Claude Macdonald was
suffering so much from heart disease
and other complications that he could
scarcely walk hundred yards.