Daily inter mountain., 1900-01-13
open Criticism of the War
Department.
GENERALS ARE JEALOUS
OF Each Other and This Has Caused a
Great Deal of FrictiOn-SOme OF
the Stories That Are Now Going
the Rounds.

London. Jan. 13.-(Copyrighted, l9oV' py
the Associated Press). The time has come
when the people of Great Britain no
longer keep silent regarding the misman-
agement of the war. The floodgates OF
criticism have been opened ana unaer
the stream of adverse comment pouring
forth regulations are willing. Ihe stern
upbraiding of the government by papers
that almost for a century have been con-
seryative, has already been touched upon
in these DISPATCHES Abuse of the war Of
fee has always existed and now it is only
few degrees more bitter than 1t was pe-
fore. What chiefly marks the passing OF
the British from period of passive DIS
content to most severe fault finding IS
the outspoken abuse of their generals IN
the field.
There are unpleasant stories OF fierce
service jealousies and, in short. all
the arrnys shortcomings. which
have been secretly whispered in clubs.
are this week finding their place in
print and not in disreputable journals but
in organs that month ago would have
fiercely denounced such tales as unpa-
triotic whether they We're true or other
WISE
It is now we'll known that General Bull
Ter despises Field Marshal Lord Roberts
and hates General Lord Kitchener; that
Lord Wolseley, the Misunderstanding,
shares Gen. Buffers feelings and that
'Wolseley is scarcely on speaking terms
with the secretary of state for war, LORD
Lansdowne. To such a tlagrant extent
does this enllity go that Lord Wolseley
wrote to Lady Butler that he knew moth
ing about Lord Roberts appointment to
command the British troops in South Af-
rica and that he disapproved of it. With
out enormous obstacles to overcome in
the way of the Beers, strenuous resist
ance and initial advantages, this condi-
ton of affairs between the army leaders
would constitute a stupendous drawback
to the success of the British.
One paper. usually well informed on
service matters. declares it is quite likely
that General Butler will throw up his
command and come home and be thorn
in the side of the government. This Is
probably an exaggeration, but it is ad-
mitted on all sides that HE is likely to
make himself as disagreeable as possible
to Lord Roberts. AS If this was not
enough. it is ope n y said General Lord Me.
thuen has gone mad. that his mother died
insane and that all his life he has been
afraid he might share her fate. Hence, it
is added, his unceasing rastlessness.
! Only this week a high cavalry officer re-
turned from South Africa with COM
plants against Lord Methuen, that the
neral during one of his first actions had
ordered him to advance with his cavalry
and that upon the colonel sending the gen.
eral word that his horses and men were
! ybo tod 10 ho nh Sno1 11xy n hi NJ
doing SO. Lord Methuen is reported to
have said:
well, you had better go to hell
The officer to whom this remark was
made has come home demanding a trial
by court martial, but it. is probable that
he will not get it, as he has been slated
for another commands
Generals White, Gatacre, Clery and
French all come in for their share OF
abuse and there is evidence presented
that the senior generals are divided
against themselves. M
How all this will end if the campaign
drags on much longer, without serious
lchange for the better, no one can tell. The
resignation of Lord Wolseley would no
:. surprise those who are cognizant Of the
inner workings of the war office. A
great victory would probably quiet tht
feelings of discomfort till the daylof reck
oning in parliament arrived. But lacking
that, there seems pending an upheava
which BODIES i'll for the government, tn,
war Office and some Of the generals II
the field, for these rankings are current
not so much among the lower, sensation
al loving class, but among the highest
born and most even minded of Grea
Britain's best citizens. Nor is the discon
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