The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-12
THE EXPANDING
BULLETS ISSUED
But viii Not be Used in South
Africa.
THE WAR OFFICE CRITICISED
Heavy Losses of Beers at Lady,
smith Reported.
LETTEE ARE BADLY SClSS0RED
The9 s ,artment Has Not Confirmed
IS i eport of Methuen's Withdraw
N& Tbouoh His Family Receivea
| -
News of His Condition
q
Heavy Losses of Beers at Lady,
smith Reported.
LE1TEL SIRE BADLY scIssoRED

London, January 12.-(4 a. m.)-Lee-Me
ford cartridges are running short in the
British magazines and according to semis
official report the war Office proposes to
fall back temporarily upon one hundred
million mark w." expanding bullets, most
of which are already in storage in South
Africa.
The war Office however, has issued strict
orders to the volunteers that the fifty
rounds of mark iv.' given them must be
used in practice at home, none being taken
ito South Africa. Il
After the public announcement that no
such bullet would be used in this war, its
employment, the Chronicle thinks, would be
a serious breach of faith, especially as the
British commanders have complained that
the Beers occasionally use such projectiles.
The newspapers were reconciled during
the early DAYS of the war to cable censorA
| ship. taking it for granted that full narras
| tives sent by mail would supply all dehcien-
| cies, For some weeks, however, even the
| mail correspondence that has arrived iu
| London has shown signs of habitual scisf
| soring by the censor. Pages are renumberf
ed without chronological or logical connect
| ton. leaving the happenings described quite
unintelliglble in many cases. -
The editors, acting possibly in concert
are laving these facts before the public ana
| dnsist that they be permitted TO know anP
| to print the facts.
War Omce "Doctoring"
! The Daily Mail formally accuses the wap
office of "doctoring and editing omciai
dispatches before their issuance, ana CITES
particulars The Daily Chronicle AYERS that
there seems to be am official conspiracy
against letting the truth be known.
Although the number of deaths from dys-
entery and enteric at Ladysmith have been
published by the war Office since Saturdays
fight, nothing has been given out regarding
the losses in the engagement. The war
office asserts it has nothing to give out.
| Arm chair critics who, in the absence OF
| reportorial or official descriptions from the
| seat Of war, pour forth pages OF conJec-
| ture and opinion, conclude that not mucn
| is to be expected of the British hosts IN
| South Africa until Lord Roberts shall have
| had plenty of time to think and fresh levies
| shall have arrived. Time is working now
| for the Beers. Each day makes more diff
| cult the three beleagured positions.
although the war Office declines to cons
firm the report that Lord Methuen has
been recalled ito England. inquiries made
by a correspondent at Methuens home In
Wiltshire have elected the information that
when he received his wound, his horse
threw him heavily, and spinal and othef
| injuries supervened.
The theory Is now advanced that the seizs
| ures of the German mail steamers Herzog
| and General. since released, were made on
| purposely misleading information supplied
| ito British agents, the design being to em-
| broil Great Britain and Germany in quar-
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