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Show I raw " N M,m ENGLISH ARMY OFFICERS. IjiSfj' The report that makes clear the utter incompetency M F jj of officers that have graduated from British military I l H schools, must bring extreme humiliation to English a Ml people. Lord Kitchener must have felt a savage I 1 Ft! pleasure in endorsing it for he is soldier enough to B.ujjj! realize that British prestige as a martial nation jjg has been well nigh ground to atoms in the South I ) lUffi African war. After the Crimean war there was a I I uf K great shaking up of army matters in England. It iiR was made clear that through incompetency in the HUffS commissary and other departments of the army, Vwf nf thousands of British soldiers had suffered altogether I fill unnecessary hardships, while many had died for want liflllf decent food, clothing, medicine and hospital at-llnfl at-llnfl tendance. I'Xjjl But that was not nearly so humiliating as this last will report. It pictures the English officer as a Polo I'Sft pWn6 cross-country riding dude, who not only Injl knows nothing of iniltary science or duty, but as a I lout without sufficient education to be able to ex- Hni press his ideas in a presentable form. BjHj The Crimean report had nothing of that, no re- V I proaches came back from Inkerman, the Redan or Hi Balaklava. The old stubbornt furious British pluck Hfflj was all in full evidence then, but this present report H reduced to plain English would read: "The average HI officer graduated from our British schools is a de- H'll generate, deficient in every attribute which hereto fore England has claimed as inseparable from her race of men." It is a very tough report. The only evidence of pluck attached to it is the pluck needed to lay such a report before the world. |