The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-28
IMPERIAL YEONnANRY HAVE SMALL
RESPECT FOR DECORATIONS
BESTOWED BY EDWARD
BOER TROOPERS GET BUSY
British Force Driven Out of Bre-
mersdOrD-What Is Transporting
in Great Britain's Big
Capital City.

medals were given by King Edward tC
the yeomanry yesterday morning IN
| explanation of their anger the yeomer
| alleged the government was in arrears
with their pay and referred to the blum
ders Of officials. One yeoman said:
"Our names are misSpelled and oul
rank and command are wrong in SIN
cases out of ten. We supposed tine
| medals would be worth something to ouI
friends and ,posterity but mine is not
| worth anything but to chuck away
The example of this man was follow
! ed by others.
BRITISH FORCED TO RETIRE.
Telegraphing from Pretoria. under date
| of July 26, Lord Kitchener reports to the
war office as follows:
"a detachment of the Steinackers
| horse, occupying BremersdOrp, was fore
! ed to evacuate July "A by a superior
! force Of Beers, probably the commanders
from Amsterdam and Pietretie. The de-
! tachment fought Its way to bompopo,
! distance of sixteen miles, losing about
| ten killed or wounded and a few miss
ing"
| CANNON HEARD 40 MILES AWAY.
A remarkable record has recently been
brought to light concerning the distances
at which the firing Of heavy guns can be
heard. These discoveries have an i'm
portant bearing upon rain-making ex-
periments and throw side lights upon the
Sampson-Schley controversy
An expert named c. Davidson made
elaborate preparations to take observa-
lions of fleet firing when the late Queen
Victoria's body was taken from Cove
to Portsmouth The result of these OBJ
servations established the fact that the
reports of heavy guns were clearly audi
BILE at the extraordinary distance of 140
miles inland, while at a distance of 81
miles the reports were so loud that la
borers in the fields put down their spades
to llsten and at 81 miles from the guns
windows were shaken.
These statements bear upon the Samp-
son-Schley controversy inasmuch as Adj
miral Schley's statement, made May 20,
1898, concerning the hearing of guns forty
miles away which he believed was the
Spanish fleet, was received by many per-
sons with considerable incredulity.
TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS.
God grant that before long you may be
able to find q cure for cancer or check
its course" This sentence in King Ed
wards address to the delegates to the
congress on tuberculosis has been a sub
Ject of much private comment and has
given vitality to the gossip of some
months ago that the king was affected
with cancer of the throat, for which,
however, there is no sort Of foundation.
In this sentence, King Edward doubtless
referred to the sufferings of his sister,
Empress Frederick of Germany, who is
daily reported to be in a more painful
condition, and whom King Edward short
ly will visit
American delegates to the British con-
gress on tuberculosis, which terminated
July 26, are now leaving London. They
express themselves as greatly satisfied
with the result of the weeks work.
Allen G. Knight, of Chicago, speaking
of DR.. Koch's announcement, said that
DIR. Koch had performed q worldwide
service in calling attention to the precau-
lions necessary to prevent the spread Of
tuberculosis, and that it was now the
duty of every government to prove
whether or not DR.. Kochs statements
were true, and that he. hoped to see In
vestigations prosecuted to demonstrate
whether DR.. Koch was wrong or right.
DR.. HAITI, of Detroit, said:
IT have no doubt but that DR.. Koch
has given the medical world the great
est problem of the age. In emphasizing
the Importance of the destruction of the
sputum Of consumptives, Dr. Koch
touched upon difficult task to handle,
but every known conSumptiVe should be
prosecuted for promiscuous expectora-
ton"
THE CANAL TREATY.
Commenting upon the interview with
Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to
the United States, published in the Unit
ed States July IS, in which Lord Paunce-
fote expressed his belief that a Nicarau-
guam canal treaty between Great Britain
and the United States would be signed,
Today voices the feeling which has been
gradually growing stronger in Great
Britain, that SO long as the free use of
the canal is given to all nations, it can
not be seen why Great Britain's inter-
est is to demand more
Treaties are not eternal" says Today,
and the Clayton Bulwer treaty was ne
gotiated at a time and under cfrcum-
stances very different from today It is
not to the interest Of Great Britain to
oppose American aspirations in the mat
ter, seeing it is not essential that Brit
ish interests be jeopardized by a con-
cession of the American claims, while we
might be very great losers by a persist
ent refusal to acquieSce therein
1T is easy enough to understand why
Germany and other continental powers
are doing their best to prevent England
from giving way, but it is much less easy
to see why England should play into
the hands Of the continental powers by
angering the United States"
PARTY POLITICS.
The agitation among many of the Lib
eral-Unionists at the formation of q new
party finds a. somewhat striking vent
In the National Review, in which maya
zine an influential member of the Lib
eral-Unionist party, under the nom de
plume of IAN Old Parliamentary Hand"
contributes an important plea to this
end The writer maintains that the I'm
ionists are not bound to the Conserva-
tives by any unbreakable ties, and the
feebleness of the ministry, he says, Is
now becoming grotesque. Whenever men
meet there Is general consensus of
opinion which regards as contemplate
the weakness of the government which
the Unionist keeps in Office The writer
sums up by saying that a cabinet with
Lord Rosebery at it's head, Mr.. Asquith
as leader in the house of commons, Lord
Berrisford as head Of the admiralty
Lord Kitchener in the war office. Richard
B. Halladon head of the judiciary office.
Lord Cromer in the foreign office and
including Sir Edward Gray OiberaD and
Sir Henry Fowler NiberaD, would be
welcomed by the nation and a large, i'm
portant and increasing section of the I'm
ionists.
The Saturday Review, although bitter
ly opposed to the Radicals, lends itself
to similar schemes, saying that if Mr.
Asquith and his colleagues would only
place their free lances in proper places
and reveal the same liberalism of men
like Lord Miner, they should have little
difficulty In turning the tables against
the government at the next election
These articles and the dispatch to the
Standard from Cape Town concerning the
relation of Lord Kitchener, in measure
confirm the dispatches cabled to the AS
ISOLATED Press July IS, in which the
British public was represented as aroused
and disguised at the suppression or
South African news, and in which it was
said Lord Kitchener nnieInt be s11cceedad