The sun., 1901-10-13
KING IS BULLER'S FRIEND.
VAR OFFICE FORCED TO GIVE
MN THE NEW COMMAND.

meat Considered niack Ingrstitude 70
Secretary Drodrtc& - Ills Surrender
Nr..sse-The Need IN south Africa
and the british Inabnity 20 FIn u.
srsosai Cesi. DspaieAss 10 Trs sur.
IOSDoS. Oct. i2-Gen. Sir Redvers
Rulcrs amazing haransus on Thursday
10 the officers Of his old regiment L. regarded
by the friends - Secretary OF War Brodrtck
q. black ingratitude to the War Minister,
~ho submitted TO enormous pressure and
ratified the appointment Of the old leader
n the British in Natal TO the command OF
the First Army Corps
{, j. over year since Prime Minister
Salisbury declared on a public platform
tha, soldiers should not indulge In public
talk When 1t appeared that Gen. Buffers
appointment would provoke dangerous
agitation Secretary Brodrick thought he
could save the situation by announcing
thai It was not actually an appointment
fora n ew term IL years but the completion
Of tho unlapsed period Of Gen. Buffers
Command at Aldershot. which he held
before the war This did not satisfy Sir
Rsiyers Butler. who declared In his speech
thai nobody In England OF junior rank IL
litter than himself to command the First
Army Corps.
Although the newspapers and the edu-
Gated public arr now practically unani-
nous in the opinion that Gen. Buffers
.okiierly qualities certainly are not those
Of a leader. he has undouht edly 40, King
kiward and the noisier -ssct ION Of the crowd
~th him Despite his heliogram telling
ti"n. White at Iadysmith and his ~ OOo
men that he could no, relieve them for
long time after his defeat nj Colenso Oh
De- Is. and his suggestion that thoy should,
therefore, DESTROY their stores and MAX"
ths l-.s, possible terms Of surrender, his
hackers still 80 In Gen Butler an ideal
bulldog fighter Gen. Buller Sys now
that he had seon Il in writing somew here
that pis ~tores of the Lady smith garrison
c,,rli La. only until the end of 1900, and
,a' h. snt the surrender message out of
regard for Gen. White, whom he could not
relieve before the New Year. Gen. Buffers
aei-at at Colenso occurred on Dec Is
A. matter Of fact the IAdysmi'h garrison
had over four months supplies when tho
rac~ was first invested and were not starry
lug hen the Beers abandoned the siege
a, the end Of February
some OF Gen Buffers friends reasonably
sgges, that after the ordeal and eXhaus-
ton of the Colen-o disaster his nervous
condition was responsible for the helio-
grams he sen, to Ladysmith Bu, Butler
himself does not Accept this now. lie
saws Of the Colenso defeat that 1t was rank
bad luck. while his heliosrarn a. prompted
solely by consideration for the gallant
Sir George White.
T.. nal anihifiafls mar In sh~
army Gen Buffers appointment To the
command of the firs, Army Corps. fol-
lowed by his speech Of las, Thursday, has
been a death blow to their expectations
81 reform from Secretary Of War Brodriok
who we summoned To Balmoral 70 sce the
hing to-day ~ he was previously called
o. Marlborough House the night befors
Ten Butler vas appointed.
t'nless sonnet hing Unforeseen happens
there will be- no meeting Of the British
cabinet before the middle OF November
TIE general impatience at the non progress
of south African Affairs started q call for
cabinet meetings. hut the public seemed
O. Accept the assurance Of the Ministers
tina, the problem is now wholly a military
ous II Ia admitted that large numbers of
the men now az the front arc quite stale and
are useless for aggressive work. but when
the question Of how 10 fre-hen the fight
ing material IL brought up only sober re-
Aec,ions are now forthcoming
The Imprralist paper. Outlook says:
The truth Of the matter is that men sui,
able for the successful prosecution of the
present phasr OF the war are hs ri 20 find
Many Inducements have been offered for
suitable men. including high rate ray.