Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-04-28

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known to Coke, who was under the i'm
preston that the command devolved
upon Colonel Hill as senior officer.
| Omissions or mistakes OF this nature
may be trifling in themselves, yet they
may exercise an important influence
over the course of events, and l believe
| Butler was justified in remarking
| There was a want of organization and
system which acted most unfavorably
on the Defense
"The attempt to relieve badysmith
was well devised. and agree with Bull
| Ter in thinking IL ought to have sue
ceodod. That 1t failed may in some
measure have been due to the difficult
| ties of the ground and the commanding
positions held by the enemy. and preb-
ably also to errors of Judgment and
want of administrative capacity on the
part of Warren. But whatever faults
| Warren may have committed, the fail
ure must also be attributed to the dis
| inclination of the officer in the supreme
command to assert his authority and
see that what he thought best was
| done and also to the unwarrantable
, and needless assumption of response
| binLy by subordinate officer"
The dispatch concludes:
"The gratifying feature of these dis
patches Is the admirable behavior OF
the troops throughout the operation"
Aliwal North. April 1i.-Colonel
Grenfell wires that the casualties at
Wepener include Quartermaster Will
| liams. Lieut.. Halford and Lieut.. Dun
| can and 10 men wounded.
| Sir Godfrey Lagden, resident Com
missioner Mt Mesru, telegraphs that no
Smelling has been heard from the direc-
tion of Wepener today. A regiment os
British infantry and battery Of ar
tillery arrived Friday.
| General Brabant's headquarters and
all the mounted troops have gone to
Rockville.
| London. April 1S.-1:55 p. m.-Lord
Roberts criticisms of Genera Butler,
| General Warren and Colonel Thorny-
| croft continue topics of acute interest.
| All the afternoon papers comment at
length on the structures of the British
commander-in-chief in South Africa,
taking the same lines as the morning
papers, praising Lord Roberts for his
frankness and specializing upon swhat
the publication Of the dispatches at the
present time portends.
Some of them maintain there is noth-
ing left for General Butler but to re-
sign. The st. James Gazette is par
ticularly scathing. Referring to Cen
eral Buffers report 1t says:
Never in the history of armies did
it happen that generals scrubbed their
confessions Of failure and defeat, oil
useless deaths of men and of discredit
to the flag in manner which suggests
a careful selection from the forced
jocular manner, the slangy language
| of the horseman, and the gable of the
smoking room in the evening"
The Globe declares that "a more
pitiable record of INDIGESTION in plan
and confusion in execution we have sell
dom read" and adds that what little
reputation General Butler had left has
been scattered to the winds.
Practically no developments have
been reported in today's South Afri-
can cables. A despatch from Warren
ton, dated Tuesday, April II, says:
Finding the Beers busy making new
trenches we exploded lyddite shells
following up these with the Maxims
The enemy's ambulance was afterwards
observed on the spot"
| From Wepener there Is nothing later
than Lord Roberts message Of yester-
day and presumably neither side has
gained any particular advantage at an!
point in the theater of war since the
last official dispatches were received.
| London, April 1S.-It Is Persistently
insisted in military circles that Lieu