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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1903-09-11, Page 6rtNarJPETEtHE NCY AT AR OF1flE, How the ' Bungled and climate in the world from the polar regions to the equator. We could have thrown away quite hall of our outfit land not massed it " i , ).iany Officers Were Worthless. A, large number of militia officers had 'never been trained at all, accord- ing to Major General Borrett, while Lord Lovat stated that each regi - Aleut practically had officers who were so completely) worthless that they could not be taken on a trek. Boer War Was They, used eo be. left in differnt head- quarters for superintending bag- gage and stores. Mismanaged Vice Admiral Sir R. Harris tells the ` following; delightful story: '"The con- fusion, of course, was 'tremendous, ,owing to the war,ti11 through;the boa- ony. I may say, for instance, that I sent a trunk loa,d of one hundred and fifty lyddite ,shells to Lord Me- thuen, which was absolutely; lost for three (weeks." Utter oonfusion existed initially and through the course of the Cana- paign. Sir Redvers Teller said he went without any general instruc- tlons whatever and received none on his arrival in South Africa. Sir J. Ardagh declares the War Office al- ways contemplated a withdrawal to the south of the Tugela on the out- break of the war, and never thought for a moment of Latlysmith's being a defensible place. Yet the bulk of the stores in that town were poured in from Oct. 7, three days before the war broke out, and it was then impossible to have them removed. As to the question of the co-opera- tion of the Orange Free State with the Transvaal, the military advis- ers of the Government had affirmed that it was certain. Nevertheless, speaking long after the outbreak of the war, Ur. Balfour declared that the cabinet had been utterly taken by surprise on the subject. "Leisured Statesmen" Condemned Some of the newspapers are strong in their expressions of indignation. Tho Daily Mail says: "One lesson blazoned on every page of this re- port le that our national interests can no longer be intrusted to men who regard statesmanship as a pleasant occupation for. the leisured classes. The day of such men as Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Brodrick In English statesmanship is over. They are costly and dangerous lux, cries. The reputation of ' Lord Lansdowne le blasted a hundred tinges over in the peges of this evi- dence, and not only his reputation but the whole attitude of the present cabinet toward 'their duties 'to the empire." The Times says, in regard to th'e report : "It is a sweeping indict- ment of our military unprepared- chauld prepare the plan of a scheme nese, an unpreparedness, be it ob- of mobilization in the early summer, served, which there is no reason But the Government would not vote e Ithink leas been very materially lessened in the period since the LANSDOWNE TO BLAME. 'Conceit Begun Without the 'Know- ledge of Resources—Country Ab soltttely Unprepared for Struggle, and " Leisured Statesmen" Blain ed. , New York, Sept. 7.—A special cable from London to the Herald says. The revelations contained in the re- port of the Royal Commission on the conduct of the tear in South Africa have filled all England with consternation and ',ndignation. According to the testimony of Gen. Nicholson, the intelligence section of the War Office relating to South Africa was run before the war on the two man and a boy principle, With two officers and one clerk. The !Treasury, against the united recom- iniendatlon of the. War Office, refused •q,nty increase 'Bence it is not surpris- tg thee, when England went to war, here was no effective map whatever of the Orange Free State, the Trans- vaal or'Natal. To quote Lord Kitch:- ener's own testimony, according to the official memorandum, "a field intelligence 1epartment had to be created from the very beginning." cw ' delays at War's Outbreak. Gen. Nicholson is respon.:ible for the Informatiou that there was practi- cally no valid connection between the Intelligence department and the de - ,fence committee of the Cabinet. Cot Altham 'testified that every Boer gun .Was known and traced after the war. The . BrItish local defence scheme ",eras, however, based on an inade- quate force. It was merely that ,generals should report how they 'could make the best of what troops 'they had, and that experts by desire ttlle extra necessary money until it Was forced to do so. • This was the testimony of Gen. Sir F. Stopford, and, from the official memorandum and Col. Altham's tes- timony, it Is apparent that the Mar- quis of Lansdowne knew that there Were forty-eight thousand mounted Boers waiting to oppose the British. Yet, almost without exception, In- fantry Were sent. When finally the mobilization of the. First Army Corps vas ordered, it was so late that it eves not possible for Gen. Sir Rectvers 'Buller to be in a position to take:the ;field until the end of December. The Boers, however, invaded Natal in the 't ecepd week in October. The hasty "litoli_ifziitlof left the part o^f the Brie - ,caused disorganization. f^" we n Witt Sliortcom'ng 3. The !bur `voluniews of the report jteem with War Office shortcomings. ITthe Britieth had ho quick -firing guns in• South Africa when tho war 'start - ;e4. Warnings from the Cape were ne- +g1eoted. The mobilization at home !was muddhd. The War Office did laot :even know thee the pompons could be cased for field purposes, according lto Sit' R. Knox, and theme was grave perfusion and delay in the Ordnance Delpertment, which warned the Gov- !eirnme-nt most explicitly, bat in vain. lof the need for early expenditttre. It ;wets not known here until the middle !of '0atober that the Deers were 'us - .Ing any field guns in the field. Triers we're ,ser Tew pontoons in this coun- 'try that the old ones had to be sent pout. Nobody ,epsnt any money till au- Itborizcd by the Secretary of State, strew rcfwee his sa.netion till Septum- s fie¢'. Provisone Left to Spoil. To what use provisions were some- litimoe,s put Is time related by Lieuten- 'a,ut-Colones Morgan : ''We'ha•d very jalrge stocks at our base ports of Un- tried name and biscuits. It became a 'nuisance In the way, that we had no k'geeernogeenf,oranitd, It had rtsoe s,twaidout in wind, I-wee:ther and sun acting upon any- thing of that sort some of it went any- [thing the bad." • There "seem to have boon many oainpie.,ints about supplies. Instead of iinwsiseng on one pound tins of meat, las wee recommended by a commit- tee sixteen years ago, the War Of- fice bought ,six -pound tins. These be- ing heavy, the men ,often threw them away. According to Colonel Carr, too boots were distinctly bad. In 1000 'teeey were of brown paper, or at least not very much better. Owing to the Inabilty of tire troops to obtain soap, ,hta1f the force in South Africa, ac- cording -to Colette' Sir W. Bchardson, beaten verminous. e t C Of course the medieal service broke flown itvhen the 'Surgeon 'General of tine army, Sir W. "Wilson ,affirms that 'he was actually,' told in the first week of October • that t there would be .no 'war, with the result that he neither Made nor was asked for any' special and the available exporting surplus sug ;estitme before he sailed a few of the other States, inclioa,ting a de- , 'days later for the Cape. ficiency amounting to 13,270,000 Stir Frederick Trevos Bald in regard metereentners in the world's grain crop. Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 81.—The 0. 11. to -dal' confirmed the de.tenienit made same time ego ;that a 10 -cent rate for went would go into effect to -morrow. 'This gnenns that wheat Will be carried from Winnipeg: to the lakes for 0 cents a bushel, '• war.` The Morning Advertiser sarcasti- cally remarks : "There is only one thought likely to trouble the mind of the patriotic Britisher, as he roads these remarkable volumes— that is the notion that they will be of greater service possibly to our military friends on the con- tinent than they will be to our own War Office and army: The Daily Chronicle says: " If Lord Lansdowne has any sense of decency left he will send in his re- signlation at once. It is not fit- ting that a Minister who has so flagrantly mismanaged one depart- ment of the public business should remain In charge of • another of equal importance.' . BLAMED THE CAPTAIN. Stranding of the Manchester Trader— Master Suspended. Quebec, Sept. 7, --The Court Of In- quiry In the matter 0, tun etrunring of the steainer Manchester Trader has rendered judgment.. The court finds tLat the eouree set at 0 o'oloek p. m. on Aug. 'J ,to pa,ss about six milds to the southward of South Point, Anticosti, was a 'sato and proper one, bu,t 'the master ahould have '1M ifognized on sighting South- west 'Point light that he was a Num- ber of mites to the northward of his course, ani should have 'altered his c.ounse materially. Again at 8.'c2 o'clock a. m. on Aug. 10, on sighting South Point lighthouse almost n1 ca,d ,the master had a second in- dieatiou that he was considerably to the northward of hies course, and had he acted with any judgment the stranding would never have occur- red. That the eyelets.' •stranderl about 6,45 o'clock a. m. on Aug. 10, near South Point, Ant'loo.sti, through tile wrongful ae,t of the master, Michael Swards, steering improper courses after receiving two conn acing proofs that he tens very much out of his reckoning. The court suspends the certificate of the master, Michael Swords, Tor a period of sit months, • but tcoommend,s that he be granted a certificate as first mate during the period of his sumen slon.as master. WORLD'S GRAIN CROP, A Ten -Cent Rate Granted by the 'C N. 11. Ior the West. Budapest, Sept. 7.—Thee annual estimate of tit • world's grain crop, Issued by the Minister of Agriculture, sets the wheat crop 10 Hungary at 41,226,700 metercentners (a meter- contner equals 440.02 pounds), corn- pared with 46,507,000 last year. The deficiency in other cereals about the same percentai;e. The report strikes a bnlanee between the requirements of importing countefes NEW V R GIRL SEES T E DAYLBiIITe Tule New Power of RAio—Activity a c Hrade9 Says a New York story. New York, Sept. 7.—"I only knewi that it has ;been night all the time. Alter I went to the strange piece with the doctor I saw lights. They moved past me as we came glome. The doctor said they were street oars. And I have seen other lights that they tell me are on the street." Seven-year-old Tillie Spttznadel, who bas been blind. since she was three years old, thus relates her sen- sations after the optic nerves of her eyes were experimented on be' a com- bination of radium and 1; -rays a few days ago by Prof. Wee. J. Elammer in his laboratory, the child being brought there by her physician, Dr. Amon Jenkins. The child saw the lights after the experiment was made. Only brokenly can she tack of her experience—she is so nervous as a consequence of this new hope that bas entered her Life. She has the flush of health in er cheeks, and, as far as her general condition goes, seems to have every- thing in her favor for complete re- covery. This child's experience means that radium, that strange; new 'element, which seems to belong to the world of fancy rather than that of fact, has for the first time been applied to paralyzed optic nerves, with the result that a light was observed where all had been darkness. When .used alone there were no results to be noted. When used in combination with the X-rays the phenomenon was noted. The experiment was made on Tillie Spitznadel, who Iives at 3114 East Fifty-second street, a few nights ago In the laboratory of Prof. Wm1. J. Hammer, whose book on "Radium". has just been published, the child being under the care of her physician, Dr. Amon Jenkins, of the Marino Hospital service. et is a most remarkable case, and one destined to cause much discus - tion and speculation before, by ex- pertments, it is finally determined whether the rad'um, and X-ray com- bination will restore permanent, sight to the supposed lne-urably blind. Increasing the mystery or the ex- periments is the fact that each power is most dangerous if careless- ly bandied ; neither do the experi- menters, aecorcl:,ng to Prof. Ram - mer, who is the bet authority on redeem in this country to -day, know what the relative speed of the X- rays and the radium rays are. It a. paralyzed nerve may be awakened Ira tlnere.iore impossible beforehand to and made to do its work by the com- even geese at tile ultimate results otf bination of the X-ray and radium. itte the tinny medical Service: "We webers °eerrybig about with us tnstru- ,lktents•+tehich I should have thought '*euidebe found only iii museums, and in'dioinee which had been in cum- ibrome botties `(or posstbly twenty •+e'earie, We Were rlragcrine nhot;t n. ;(geld. hospital otgtfit spiteble [ter a,n,'jj the two strange powers that se en- th etc of today know least about. "1 made every knorw'n experiment fleet," said Prof. Hammer yester- day," to determine whether the girl was totally blend, before applying the radium. I was convinced that she was." .Thee he showed the tests he had made. There was lightning made to coder and flashed in the girl's face.. This is not the way the experiment- er puts it, but this was a. fact, and this simple statement gives a much clearer Idea of wihet occurred, to the Ivey mend, than the technical phrase- oogy. Electricity was turuea on in a bunch of electric bulbs until the light wee blinding. Still the child saw nothing. Then the magnesium light was held close to her face. One having sight could not snibmot to thea test. Even a r+snsual glanpe at this fierce white light pauses pain in the eyes to many. Rut the giri did not even see a glimmer. Forty tubes or phosphorescent naa.t- tem, stimulated by, the magnesium, and which glowed with all the colors of the epef:truni, were next held ctoee to her eyes, on the theory that the different wove lengths might affect her, but site sew, nothing. The final test was with, an ultra- violet light, bat the rgsuit was the same. The girl could not see. The X- ray alone was used, and radium alone, with similar results. Tlh,ee came the etpreme test. The seven tubes of radium, rang- ing from 75 to 7,000 radio -activity, were placed against the base of the brain, the ioreiiead, and the temples, and the shrill was allowed to look through the flurozcope. She could gee nothing on the ,tereen. Then the rad- ium and the X-ray were used toge- ther, an the theory that the latter might b:: faster and mlght, therefore, stimulate the nerve to action. There followed amomentary sensation of light in the right eye, bat still there wars dn,rkness in the left. But the happier results came on the homewaed journey,. "It seems," said Mr. Hammer, "as if the nerve had been srtimulated, the action not coming until the forceHs applied had time to work. Ae the child would notice the lights when papering the oars, she became so ex- cited she would jump to her feet." When the next experiment is made radium of 300,000 radio -activity will bo used. This will, it is believed, be the supreme test as to whether a dead nerve can be brought back to life; or even, failing in this. whether fiNSLO 5Allii R1iO1. Britain " The Great Little Mother of Nations." DOMINANT POWER OF WORLD Barrow-in-Furness, Eng., Sept. 7.— The autumn conference of the Iron and Steel Institute opened here to- day, under the presidency of Andrew Cnrn,egie. Mr. Carnegie, in opening, said that the record in iron and steel of England, "the great little mother of naa.tione," had not been equalled by any o•f her children, al- though her oldest and biggest seems to inherit his mother's indomitable spirit, and the ability to work mira- cles. "In alt matters' of iron and steel, however," continued 11Ir. Carnegie, "the cbild has been borne upeon the shoulders of the parent. If the At - beetle Ocean had been prairie land, there would have been little left in the world but the conquering old lady and her family all under one roof, under one flag, a self-sustain- ing empire, under free trade, with probably 200,000,000 of oiir English- speaking lace and a home market so big as ton,give eontr'oi of neutral markets. NJ question of protec- tion or preferential tariffs then to disturb us; besides all this we should have been able to enforce peace am- ong nations. "Gentlemen, unfortunately, an ocean exists where we should have preferred prairies, but 11is tra- versed in about the salve time as the 3,000 miles of land between ivllontn:ral or New York, or the Atlan- tic, and .Ser:t Francisco end Victoria on the Pncil'ic. Who so bold as to predict that never is one race to succeed in converting the ocean, hitherto a barrier to your branches, 'into the path.way to reunion of the two ignited brandies? +Not L My faith le unshakable that some day this will be a,ecompllsliid, and that instead of two email islands here, alien to the European continent, you will look across the sea ter your own chiltiesen in Canada and the United States and beeolne once more the Mother member of the dominant power of the world." A strike Was deeleared at Montreal gat night by the Iron Itoreliere and Sheet Metal Workers. The nuanber of men affected Is 25. Their demand bd 25 eentte an hoar for a day of eine benne has been retuned by their mss►- pleolexre. BROKE PRISON IN IRELAND. Detectives En Route to U. S. to Bring Bade Prisoner. Queenstown, Sept. 7.—Police oPfi- elats will sail for the United States on the steamer Etruria, for tale pur- pose of bringing back to Ireland the notorious convict Lynchehaun who, while undergoing a. ,sentence of life imprisonment for murder, in the Maryborough jail, effected his es- cape two years ago, and made hie way to the United States. Re was recently wrested in Indianapolis. The Irish officials will take with them the w trrant under which Lynchehaun was originally con- demned. The authorities here offer- ed a reward for the recapture of Lynchehaun. AIDED MAD MULLAH. London Firm Supplied Ilim Witb Arnie and Ammunition. London, Sept. 7.—A despatch !ram) Aden, Arable., ream to explain how the Maxi Mullah o,f Somaliland bas constantly receirt'ed supplies of arms and ammunition in spite of the ef- forts made by Great Britain time and again to suppress this traffic. Tho ascpply of war materials whieli has enabled the fanatical ruler of uncivilized tribesmen to success- fully resist the work of British troops hae been conclusively traced to a London firm, which has been shipping then by way of .Marseilles to Jibutil. Since the operations against the Mullah began in Som- aliland 'the Englisb firm has sent three. million roaneds of ammunition to be used against British troops, in addition to groat nuembers of rifles'. 'Me queertion now is whether this firm will be prosecuted on chargee of treason. TO SUPPRESS CRUELTY. Wor1Wide Pian for Protection of Birds and Animals, Berlin, Sept. 7.—The Berlin Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's is taking the initiative In. attempting to bring about an international understanding on the subject of cruelty to animals and birds ie Italy,, with the tete to sup- port the work of th'e Italian socie- ties and with the co-operation of the Milan Government. The plan le as follo'sv.s a , 1 be a ed Conspicuous signs wig pl e on the railroad oars, asking travel- ers to aid in suppressing fearful' cruelty to animals and birds in Italy, b9` complaining to the Mayor AXi illustrated cupular writ akar be distributed among the travel- ers, explaining the facts as they exist, and travelers Walt be re- quested to aid in the movemer+,to by refusing to eat song birde at the hotels and boarding la'ouses, by re- fusing to buy song birds from child- ren', by looking under the saddles of horses and mules for woneds before routing such animals, and by refusing to give tips to drivers Who abuse their animals. CORRUPT JAILERS. Prince Who Escaped 'Beath Sentence Sent to Solitary Confinement. Berlin, Sept. 7. -,Prince Arenberg, Who was sentenced to death two. yearls ngo for a series of cruel mur- ders and atrocities, perpetrated while he was a lieutenant with the colonial troops in Africa, but who brought to bear aristocratic in- fluence enough to get his sentence commuted to fifteen years' impri- sonment, has just been removed frons Hanover prison under remarkable circumstances. Re had so corrupted lois jailers with bribes, that he was, enabled to give dinner parties to men land women, and to have visitors stay with him in prison. This state ot'thiugs being discovered, the whole staff kat the prison was dismissed, and Arenberg hue been transferred to Te - gel, one o'I the most rigorous peni- ten'tiariee in Germany,!, to be kept in solitary confinement for three -ears.. RAINS DESTROYED GRAIN. Thousands of Acres of Wheat Iinined in France. Paris, Sept. 7: French' wheat growers, particularly those of Nor- mandy, and Brittany, are suffering a tremendous disillusion in regard to the present wheat crop. It has been several years since conditions were so favorable at the outset, but persistent and ill-timed rains not on- ly nly have hurt the wheat, but are now lnterering disastrously with the har- vesting. Many acres of wheat have been ,ruined before it was possible to. gather the grain. The losses of the farmers of the North of France will amount to $60,000,000. Wine growers also bitterly come - plain that the downpour of rain. which is spoiling the grapes, and grapes. and the great humidity of the air are developing cryptogamio• tmalardies in the vines after the grow- ers have spent millions of francs to root out .such maladies. , • NEWS IN BRIEF 1 Brantford City Council has pass- ed a by-law. probibiting spitting an sidewalks. The new $4,000 Catholic Church, at Brandon was consecrated by, Archbishop Langevin yesterday. Edna Flynn and Reginald Mat- thews were injured by the collapse, of the razzle-dazzle swing at the Toronto Exhibition yesterday. John Smith', blacksmith, of Sel- kirk, Man, is en a critical condi- tion, having received a bullet in the tbigh. He was cleaning a rusty, revolver at tine time. William, M. Barclay, travelling re- presentative in the Muskoka terri- tory, and in Northern Ontario for the McLaughlan & Sons Co., Owen Sound, died yesterday. During the month c f August over 000 pasaeegers landed at North Sydney from Newfound, - kind. The influx from the ancient. colony this year is exceedingly large.. Manitoba Liberals have filed peti- tions against the return of Mr. S. Walker, Winnipeg North, and Pre- mier Roblin, Dufferin, and ask for disqualification of the Premier. It is reported from Ottawa that. Mr. R. L. Bordeu is somewhat ..tn- disposed. He is threatened with, an attack of bronchitls, and has not been in the house since Friday. Herbert B. Batu a clerk in the First National Bank, Richmond, yesterday shot and instantly killed Miss Rena Gentry, He then shut and killed himself. It is supposed that She 'had rejected his attentions. Tito report from' Cadiz, Spain, yesterday that the Austrian tor- pedo cruiser Zenta (not the gun- boat Sherla) had foundered off that port, arose from the tact that one of tale boats of the 7,enta, foundered. The boat's crew were saved, The Sofia correspondent of th'e 'Blues telegraphs that it is explain- ed that the Beirut affair was merely a wedding party indulging In a feu de joie and the shots were not directed with design against the United States Vice Consul Mr. 11;agelssen. Th irate Cavnn•agh C'Mthoney, who died in New York, aged 60, was one o; t'he' principal organizers of the Fenian Brotherhood in the move- ment 1n the sactth of Ireland forty yearns ago, and wee so acti.r e in the tnovement of 1887 that he wale ar- rested and imprisoned for a year. A teeheical paper pulblisihed. at Bodin says that the delegates of nearly all the eontntr'.ee9 which par- ticipated in the reeoent international congress df wireless telegraphy fa- vored international control of wire- hes's telegraphy, and advocated that reel land station 'refuse to takes a mese• singe i,f coimprehensib'.•e, from any Ship tiring a system different front that 01 the company oWning the sta- tiapt. Taee 11tarrero, a non -leprous pa-, tient, who wasfusee rem leper colony, San Juan, P. Ill„ as a result of recent investigation, died of heart disease,lmperinduced by joy at hie release. The probing into the or other officials of the place the leprosy scandal continuos to pro.. ' t ted f ties where the acts of cruelty Oootir., duce unpleasant developments, •