The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-28
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.


According TO a private letter from Sir
William MacCormac, president OF the
Royal College of Surgeons, there is excess
sive ill-feeling between the British medical
officers in South Africa and the female
former urging the sole employment of male
orderlies. On the whole however, especial
ly at the front, the medical arrangements
seem to be giving the greatest satisfaction.
A curious exception OF the general patri-
otism which prevails among the British
nobility of all classes occurred the other
day. When the Gloucestershire Volunteers
rifle range on his estates. they received the
reply that If the people of England wanted
rifle ranges they must pay for them
The last detachment of the infantry Sec
ton of the London Volunteers. numbering
1S4 men, were entrained at London yester-
day for Southampton, where they later en-
barked for South Africa. The route from
Wellington Barracks TO Nine Films Station
was thronged with cheering spectators, but
not in the same degree as on previous occa-
sions, so the order of march was undis-
turbed. The Lord Mayor and sheriffs ac-
companied the troops TO Southampton. The
battery section and ammunition column
completing the regiment will leave Feb. 3.
new fourteen FOUNDER semi-automatic
rapid-fire gun, made by the vickers- Maxim
Company for the British navy department,
was tested last week before United States
Naval Attache Lieut.. Commander Colwell.
and the Admiralty officials. Twelve rounds
were fired satisfactorily and $500 feet in
itial velocity was secured with seventeen
tons pressure. The weapon will now be
shipped to the United States.
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Only few London tneaters are drawing
paying audiences, owing 70 the war. The
new Hippodrome. however, which has been
opened in Leicester Square, seems to have
hit the popular taste and is crowded
British officer at the front writes: IAN
orderly was bringing some water to a
wounded man lying on the ground near me-
shot through the abdomen. He could hard
ly speak, owing to the dryness of his
mouth, but he said: Take 1T to my pal
first. He's worse hit than me-" After
reading this one can understand that Gen.
eral Butler did not slop over when he
wired; The men are splendid"
Professor Goodwin Smith writes to the
London Speaker one of the most mislead-
ing letters which could possibly be put
before the British public. 1t commences
~
Maine thought they were paying a compli-
ment to America by calling it by that
name; really they were 'pricking the
American conscience, as there are few
things more certain than that the Maine
was blown up by the ignition of coal in
her bunkers. The same accident has hap
pened to three American vessels since, one
of them commanded by the same captain
of the Maine, though in these cases the
vessels were saved. Nothing is more GER
tain than that the Maine not blown
up by the Spaniards." There is more in
the same strain, including as proof of his
contention. the remark that mo more is
now heard of the monument which was
to be erected TO the crew of the Maine
The London Saturday Review strikes a
bold note of defiance of the majority of
the English correspondents in America by
declaring the general feeling in America
is by no means with us I'm this matter (the
war;. whatever it's better informed units
may think.
Lord Dunraven, who is chairman of the
committee having in charge the raising of
a force of mounted sharpshooters for serv-
ice with yeomanry in South Africa. has
appealed to the British public for sub
ScriptiOnS in aid of that object. He says
he already has four hundred applications
whose shooting records are high and many
of whom had experience in the bush. The
amount needed is 100000, of which e2OO0
has already been subscribed.
So deep has the military craze taken root
in England that swell dinner parties are
now using khaki tablecloths, with bright
red flowers placed in imitation of cavalry