New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-30
HAMPERS RELIEF WORK
KINGSTON SEVERELY CONDEMNS
SWETTENHAM'S CONDUCT.
Health Officer of Ruined City Warmly
Thanks American Marines for
Their Services.

HSIT. 0STVICSS.
Kingston, Jamaica, jan 26-The
lack Of cooperation on the part of the
central control here is greatly ham
pering the work of extending relief,
providing shelter for the earthquake
sufferers pulling down the unsafe
walls and repairing the damaged
buildings, for which Gov Swettenham
is severely condemned. The Daily
Telegraph in an editorial says:
His eXcellency is still careering
around the city, poking his nose into
various corners and attending to petty
details which his subordinates ought
to attend to- The result is that when
prominent officials and other gentle
men in charge of important work call
at headquarters house to consult him
they cannot find the governor. There
is a total absence OF a deliberate, or
ganiZed movement. This is a state of
affairs on which the British and
colonial governments cannot congrat-
ulate themselves
An instance of the governors I'M
timely obstructive measures is the
police enforcement of the regulation
forbidding the erection of buildings,
even wooden shacks, without the city
surveyors approval of the plans,
which is causing great delay and dis
satisfaction. The general opinion is
that the governor has completely lost
his head and is utterly unequal to the
task Of meeting the emergency.
Colonial Secretary Bourne caused
the publication Of letter in reply to
the letter of the American CONSUL Mr..
Orrett saying that his recollection of
the visit of Rear Admiral Davis to
headquarters, when the permission to
land sailors was given, does not agree
with Mr.. Orretts version, but he does
not explain the difference.
A report issued by Health Officer
| Ogilyie warmly thanks the crew of the
American battleship Missouri for their
assistance in erecting tents and COM
mends the services of Surgeon Norton
of the Missouri in establishing the
American hospital in Winchester park.
The report that the sailors were guilty
OF some looting is authoritatively de-
1 MED.
Earth tremors continue, but at
! longer intervals and in decreased in
tensity.
Washington, Jan. ga cablegram
was received Friday night by the state
department from John R. Carter,
American charge d'affaires at London,
regarding the Swettenham-D Davis cpl
sode, and the message, which was for
warded to the president, formed a
theme OF discussion at conference
held at the White House between the
president and Secretary of State Root
1t was not made public.
Washington, jan 25.-The recent
in this city Thursday of the official
full text of the correspondence be-
| tween Rear Admiral Davis and Gov
Swettenham, of Jamaica, caused the
naval officials again to study the stu
alton to see if Admiral Davis had in
any way transgressed the bounds Of
propriety on his visit to Kingston.
Secretary Metcalf announced that
they not only found a precedent for
his landing men from his ships. to pre.
serve order, strangely enough in the
case of another British island in the
West Indies, Trinidad, but also saw
nothing in the whole affair to warrant
| the letter addressed to him by Gov
SWettenhanl