Arizona republican., 1901-10-12
ENGLISH DISGUST
Growing Dissatisfaction With
 War Management
But Neither the Ministry Nor the the War Office Is Imperilled by the Present Conditions of Criti- cisma.

London. Oct. 1.-The resumption of Boer operations on large scale in two remote fields has brought the govern ment under the fire of political guer- Has. The ministers are reproached for taking holidays. neglecting their work and accepting with credulous facility assurances from their civil and mili- tary advisers that everything is going well in South Africa. Mir. Brodick has
 been constantly at the war office and he has passion for work and red
 tape. He has not made a single san guine or reassuring reference to the war since he succeeded Lord Lans- cowne. The croakers can hardly find fault with him for taking too favorable a view of the progress of the war; nor is it reasonable, for them to infer that the ministers, by holding weekly coun- cils, could have forestalled General Botha's raid in Zululand and Com mandant De La Keys return to the
 western Transvaal after Mesaliesberg had been repeatedly cleared. The two Boer generals have concealed their, purposes and made effective demon- strations a fortnight after the expira- tion of the time limit of Lord Kitcll- ener's proclamation, and a similar raid
 by Generals De Wet and Steyn may be expected daily as an ironical reminder that the war which the Aldershur tacticians imagined would be a holiday
 parade has entered upon it's third year. Criticism of Lord Kitchener. Lord
 Miner and the ministers for lacl. of foresight in rorecasting Bosr activity Is futile. The Boer remains at the end, as he was at the beginning of the war. unique adversary with terrible per sistence. who succeeds in reversin.. every tradition of military experience and brings to naught every prediction and calculation.
 If the liberals were united and not demoralized, there would be destrur- tive criticism in the place of guerilla attacks upon Lord Kitchener. Lord
 Milner, MT. Brodrick and MT. Cham
 berlain. As 1t is, there is ineffective fault finding by the press. and nothing is accomplished. The military staff is reproached for not following up the shattered columns of Botha and De La
 Key after his defeats. and Is bluntly told that what it is doing is neither war nor business. There Is a wide spread feeling of dissatisfaction in re- gard to the conduct of the war. but the
 unionist press. while renecting it, can not perform the functions of a well organized opposition. MT. Kipling is more effective when he condemns with fine irony the acceptance of imaginary army corps and imaginary generals as serious additions to the national de- fences, and interprets the recent ap- pointment of Sir Redvers Butler. Sir Evelyn Wood and the duke of Con- naught as evidence that the army m2- chine has been hauled back into the old ruts of impotence, pretence and collapse. There has been an outburst of public impatience over the conduct
 ranges with them, when they are chas- ing the Boers: and there Is well founded conviction that incompetent generals have been protected by social influenc and the Aldershot gang. But
 neither the ministry nor the war off @ is impeTilled by the present conditions of criticism.
 General Butler has been attacked with great vshemence, but has not even taken the trouble to conceal his contempt for the newspaper warriors. The inaptitude of the war office is matched by that of the critics them selves, and the genuine reformers in the army consider the outlook for q radical reorganization hopeless. They say that the army has learned to fight under new conditions of warfare, but that the martinets of Pail Mall and Aldershot cannot forget traditions ana red tape. Some of them assert that royalty alone can bring about a perma- nent reform, and are hoping for the appointment of the duke of ConnauE:t as commander-in-c chief