The Washington times., 1901-10-27
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The Public still Excited Over the
Butler Cuse.

Butler Cuse.
LONDON, Oct. 26.-General Buffers dis
missal has infiamed political feeling as i
has not been infiamed since the dark day.
OF December. 1889, when Lord Salisbury!
Ministry stood seemingly impotent befor'
the Boer successes. The Government |.
eager to explain that the dismissal II
solely due to the breach of military dis
| cipline involved in General Buffers wilt
speech of October 10, but talking generals
are the fashion in England just now
None is more talkative than Lord Rob
| erts. The far more generally accepted
| explanation Is that Mr.. Brodrick, realiz
ing the blunder he made in appointing
| General Butler TO the command of tbs
| First Army Corps In the face of tn.
| generals Natal record and his Owl
pledges TO Parliament, seized on tn,
| speech IS an opportunity to retrace tn.
false step, re-establish himself, and stoI
the public clamor by getting rid of Gen
eral Butler.
| The public clamor on the contrary. has
become insistent. and the incident is be-
ing turned to such political account
against the Ministry by the opposition
journals that the Ministerial journals to-
day. possibly acting official appeals,
put an editorial boycott on the theme. 1t
| may or 1t may not succeed. At the pres
ent moment many persons talk as though
| England had developed a second Dreyfus
case. The old stock of Butler buttons,
which the publication of the Spion Kop
| dispatches rendered unmarketable, is
once again being brought out for public
wear.
Mr.. Chamberlain, in the opening speech
1 fnT,,
last night, also boyootted the Butler
theme, and set everyone conjecturing
whether his speech does not foreshadow
| a dissolution on the close of the war, to
| hasten which the Government means to
| encourage Lord Kitchener to increase the
| severity of his measures against the
| Beers. Meanwhile, the Ministry say moth
| ing to allay the public uneasiness at the
| fact that 5000 people. chiefly children, per-
| ished in the South African concentration
camps during the past four months
There seems to be no doubt that+he
mortality would be greatly lessened by
| the removal of the camps to the sea
coast, but against that step is the sugges-
tion that the removal would be extremely
troublesome to Lord Kitchener, when he
Is straining every nerve In warlike oper-
ations. Some say that it would throw
the war back for several month"; IL is
also an undoubted fact that loyal British
refugees in South Africa are undergoing
sufferinss only degree less intolerable
when the relative standards of Boer and
British manners OF life are considered.
The Swedish Antarctic expedition leaves
Falmouth tonight for Buenos Ayres and
the Falkland Islands. under the leadership
of DR.. Otto Nordenskjold. His first task
will be to determine whether Graham
Land is group of islands or part of an
extensive continent. If the latter it will
be possible to advance for considerable
distance by this route. and winter sta
tion will be established for six seven
persons. under the comrr,nd of DR.. Nor
denSk jold- Observations Will be carried
on in harmony with those of the British
and German expeditions
With the ship two or three members of
the scientific SIAN will make the best use
of the Antarctic summer, and then will
return to South America and the Falkland
Islands where they Will remain for the
winter. devoting their principal attention
to biological work On the approach of
neighborhood of the South Shetlands,
along the ice-barrier, until it is found
possible to push on to the winter station.
Then it Will depend upon circumstances
whether the united expedition will at
tempt to examine carefully the route fol-
lowed by Weddell in 1922, with the pos
SlDle cooperation OF the ocOlllsn eNpeul-
tion under Bruce. The return to Sweden
Is fixed for the end of the summer of
1879. Dr. Ncrdenskjold will collect spect-
mems OF all accessible fossil-bearing rocks.
Regarding the electrical experiments of
Messrs. Armstrong e. Orling, the inven-
tors explain that 1t makes little differ
ence at what distance they operate with
in about twenty miles. They have a
lamp which viii light by wireless radia-
tions at two miles distance. At very
long distances the radiatiens are re-en-
forced at Intervals. A wireless telephone
is now being set up at st. Adams, where
the inventors live.
A correspondent OF the Spectator
commenting upon these experiments.
says that some day men and women
will carry wireless telephones today
We carry a card case or camera. We
shall switch ourselves on to the under
ground radiations through the medium
of our walking sticks or boots. and then
tune up our receiver to, say, tone No.
3945l, and tone No. 39i5l will go about
his business undisturbed BY other tones.
For military purposes it soon Will be nc
longer necessary to carry cumbrOus coils
of wire, which are always at the mercy
of an enemy. The staff officer and the
scout each will drive wireless appara-
tus into the ground and await the magic
touch Of the sympathetic tone
Thanks to the Morse code, it will not
even De necessary to await perfection in
the conveyance Of the human voice. A
kindred apparatus will magnify the tele-
phonic sound, and some de-. the mouse
for which we shall set a telephone trap
will be able to roar like a bull A ship
will proclaim her name loudly through
the fog. and Calais and Dover, in haZy
weather, viii announce themselves to ap-
preaching packets. Wireless torpedoes
probably. will provide the best solution
OF the difficulties of coast defence and
when force of watchful and highly ex-
pert electricians Is sufficient to supply the
torpedoes with guiding machines. how
many expensive Notifications might not
we do without"
The London School Of Tropical Medi-
cine. at the Albert Docks, is being Visited
by distinguished foreign men of science
and also by the inspector general of the
Japanese navy. Germany recently estab-
lished a similar school at Hamburg. The
French Government decided to open
schools at MarseilIes and Paris