Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-28
ARE SICK OF THE
WHOLE CONCERN.
British Soldiers Real Sentiment on
the South African Campaign
I'LL TREATMENT OF TROOPS.
ScandaIous Conduct az British Hos
pItaIs In south Afriea-Compaet
Between Boer Generals

London, June 2O.--Corespondence OF
the Associated Press.-Wrtlng 70 the
Morning Post from Winburg, Provost
Battersby Franklin declares that the
British soldier, though just as ready
to do or die" is sick Of the whole
concern" that is to say Of South
Africa
There are very few men out here
writes the war correspondent VINO
have repented Of their pluck: very few
who would hear Of turning back until
the show is finished; but there are
fewer still who are not heartily sick OF
the whole concern, who do not reckon
daily with a sigh what they are missing
in England-the racing and the yacht
ing and the cricket, the little meetings
and the little matches and the shooting
IL may be. TO follow. The big thlhB
they are In does not appeal to them
the taking Of two countries, each OF
which might make a Kingdoms the
drawing of the scarlet line Of empire
round this rich corner Of the world,
HEART NOT IN THE WAR
"Mind they mean going through with
II. they would meet anything short OF
unconditional surrender with voluDie
disgust; they would stop not a step
this side Of Pretoria.
oBut they hate Il. Their heart is not
I'm the enterprise but In the little ways
and plays Of settled conditions.
"They would had 1t been In their de-
cision have left the cursed place 10 the
Dutchmen. Since IL was not. they starVe
and fight and die with the best grace
and most excellent courage possible.
But the change is there, from the
spirit Of the men who won the Indies
and set our flag on the seas.
BoERs ARE FIGHTING YET
London. June 2S. APO a. m.-Gen,
Rumble had a sharp rifle skirmish near
Senekal. Friday with large force OF
intrenched Beers. He declined 10 at
tack them. This is the only fresh
fighting reported.
The Boer outposts northeast Of Pre-
torla are busy. The telegraph wires
between Standerton and Newcastle
were cut Sunday. and Sir RedVers Bull
Ter had 20 report by heliograph.
Commandant Dewet, with 3'OVO men
and three guns, is moving northeast IN
the Orange River colony. 1t is under
stood that he and Commandant-Gen.
Botha entered into a compact thhl
neither would surrender so long as the
other was In the field.
Twelve thousand rifles all told, have
been surrendered 90 the BRUSH. fres-
ident Kruger is stin az Machadodorp'
EXPOSURE OF A SCANDAL.
The exposures regarding the hospi-
tails In South Africa have made great
sensation in England. They began
with three columns Of restrained Ian
guage in the Times yesterday. from W.
Burdett- COutts conservative mem
her of parliament for Westminster
His disclosures have been widely re-
produced and they are supplemented
this morning with denunciatory tele-
grams and interviews from survivors
and army medical men.
The archbishop Of Capetown, In an
address before the Society Of GO0dhope,
I'm the Cape government house, Mon
dav expressed great dissatisfaction at
the wav IN which the sick and wound
ed were treated He declared that the
warm clothing that was absolutely
necessary was freely offered. but was
rarely II ever distributed by the army
doctors: that the sick slept on the bare
ground. and that even in Capetown the
way the hospitals were mismanaged
made ones blood boil
A news agency dispatch from cape
town says: Certain revelations point
To malfeasance in connection with the
supplies Of comforts for the sick and
wounded"