Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-30
Hospital Exposures and Bad Sup
plies Cause Indignation
SOCIETY IN FULL SWING.
Receptions, Bazars, Ete" Enliven
London Car Forbids BaccRrat-
--latest Dog aud Cat show.

London. June SO.-(Special London
cable letter Copyrighted 1900 by the
Associated Press. 1.-The yellow PERIL ,"
as the Chinese crisis is now called here.
is, for the present. relegated TO second
place. Public interest in the hospital
scandals I'm South Africa so absorbs
attention that no amount OF official
clubbing can suppress H. The treat
ment OF thousands Of wounded ana
fever-stricken British soldiers In the
field threatens to become as serious
matter for public agitation as the
military camps were after the spanish
American war, II Lord Roberts was
not so frankly willing TO shoulder the
major party Of the responsibility the
outcry which Mr.. Burdett-Coutts let
tiers raised would well nigh have
swamped the government But few
people care TO seriously crucise the
general whose consideration for his
men, especially the wounded is a
byword in the army and elsewhere
ENGLISH ARE INDIGNANT.
The action Of Lord Lansdowne, the
secretary Of state for war, in submit.
ting the criticism Of Lord Roberts him.
self, was a master stroke Of politics
which temporarily saved the govern.
ments head. However, II the pro-
posed parliamentary committee finds
the war Office failed TO adopt necessary
medical precautions, IL viii take the
conservatives a long time 10 re-estab
lish their prestige with thousands in
Great Britain who have suffered bit-
terly through the loss and Illness Of
relatives I'm South Africa. II has been
hard enough for those bereaVed TO
grin aud bear the long casualty lists
but. with the suspicion that lives were
needlessly wasted there is no longer
any restraint to their sorrow or limit
to their Indignation.
DEFENsEs OF THE EMPIRE.
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 10 Join In an as
ISOLATION with the object OF fixing
steadily public attention on the lessons
Of the war foremost among which Is
the necessity for examining the de-
fences of the empire and the need OF
conducting the various departments Of
state on ordinary business principles
Among those who have promised TO be-
come members are Lord Rosebery tn
earli OF Leyen and Melville, the earl
of Rose, the earl of Clanwillam Wis
count Peel the bishop OF London (the
Rt Rev. Mandell Creighton, ID. D..
Cardinal Vaughan, Sir Wemyss Reid,
Sir Howard Vincent and large NUM-
Der Of members OF the house OF COM
mons and army officers.
ENGLISH ARMY SUPPLY SCAN
DIAL
Viscount Deerhurst. colonel OF a vol
unteer battalion Of the Worcester regi-
ment. who married an American Miss
Virginia Bonynge daughter Of Mi
Charles W. Bonynge, formerly Of San
Francisco In testifying before a parli-
amentary committee this week, brought
home with startling force the rotten
ness Of the material supplied to the
army He declared that after paying an
extra price Tor shoes Tor the battalion,
after its march they were "like paper
bags with shreds Of leather inside,
and you could easily put your finger
through the majority Of the soles.
BUG POWDER AND COLOGNE.
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. II IS said that
he recuisitioned a Boer house for his
own use but, before occupying IL. he
"showered the building with insect
powder aud "drenched II with eau de
cologne"
KID GLOVE WARFARE.
How tired the people Of England are
becoming OF such kid-glOyed methods