The daily sentinel., 1900-08-14
ENGLISH SOLDIERS STARVING
Gen, RundIe's Men Fighting for
the Honor of the Country
That is Starving Them.

That is Starving Them.
London, August 13-Mr. A. G. Haler,
representative in South Africa Of the
Daily News, is the latest war correspond
ent to attack the red tape methods OF
the British war office. Under date of
August 4th. he says:
"Let me tell you how our army in
Africa is treated by the incompetent
people in the good city Of London. 1
pledge my word as a man and journal
ist. that ev sry written word is true. l
will add nothing nor detract from, nor
set down aught in malice. II my state
ments are proven false then let me be
scourged with the tongue and pen of
scorn from every decent Briton's home
and hearth forever after; for he who lies
about his country at such an hour ae
this, is of all traitors the vilest.
II will deal now particularly with the
men who are acting under the command
Of Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Rumble.
This good soldier and courteous gentle
man has to hold frontage line from
Winburg, via Senekal, almost to the bor-
ders Of Basutolsnd.
His whole front, extending nearly
hundred miles, is threatened constantly
by an active, dashing, determined enemy,
an enemy who knows the country far
better than an English fox hunting
squire knows the ground he hunts over
season after season.
ITO hold this vast line intact, General
Rumble has to march from point to point
as scouts warn him OF the movements Of
the tireless foe.
one and any sane man would think that
gigantic efforts would be made to keep
him amply supplied with food for his
soldiers. But such is not the case. The
men are absolutely starving. Many of
the infantry men are SO weak that they
can barely stagger along under the
weight OF their soldierly equipment.
They are worn to shadows and move with
weary listless footsteps. Those in an-
thority may deny this but he who denies
it sullies the truth.
This is what the soldiers get to eat
what they have been getting to eat for a
long time past and what they are likely
to get for long time to come, unless
England rouses herself and bites to the
bone in regard to the people who are re-
spopsible for it.
Zone pound of raw -four. which the
soldiers have to cook after hard days
march, is served out to each man every
alternate day. The following day he
eats one pound Of biscuits. In this
country there is no fuel excepting little
OK dung dried by the sun. II y soldier
is lucky enough to pick up little he
can go the nearest water of which there
is plenty, mix his cake without yeast or
baking powder, and make some sort of
wretched mouthful. He gets one pound
OF raw fresh meat daily, which nine tines
out of ten he cannot cook, and there his
supplies end.
what has become OF the rations Of
rum, tea, cocoa. sugar and groceries gen-
erallyY
Ask the snug little railway siding
whore the goods are stacked-and for
gotten. Ask in the big stores in Cape
Town and other seaport towns. Ask in
your own country, where countless thou
sands Of pounds Of food stuff lie rotting
IN the warehouses, bound up and tied
down with red tape bandages. Ask
yes, ask; but don't stop at asking-damn
somebody high up in power. Don't let
some underling be made the scapegoat
for this criminal state of affairs, for the
taint of this shameful thing rests upon
you. upon every Briton whose home.
privilege and prosperity ie being safe
guarded by these famlshing men. The
folk in authority will probably tell you
that General Rumble and his splendid
fellows are 30 isolated that food cannot
be obtained for them. l say that is
FALSE"