Show I Something About the Hyphenated I South African Leader Marquise de Fontenoy In Washington I Post PostIn PostIn PostIn In announcing the other day that Gen General G General n eral had been appointed to the post of ot adjutant general of the British Brit British I Io ish army In succession c to Sir lr Evelyn Wood o lYo 1 I omitted U to gs state e that he ho heE is il an I Irishman and a Roman ROIan Iton an Catholic hailing balling from County Clare He is the son of ot Thomas Kelly of County Clare a and the h Kenny is a surname which l he added d dt to his I own Wol on his succession c sib to o j jIn the landed In property P of an uncle He I Js i ione l seI one of the few field officers whose se reputation reputation p I tation has not suffered in connection with h the South youth African campaign for military men are well aware that the principal credit for the surrender of General Genera G Cronje and of his fore the first crush crushIng crushing I Ing blow inflicted hv by the English on the Ule th Boers belongs to him himo II too o 5 0 S S Incidentally I may ma state that General Genera G J Sir William Butler has entirely recovered ered red j 1 not only anI his military l prestige but like likewise likewise wise the good will of ot the public It may ma mahe y be he remembered that Just before the out outset outset outset set of ot the war Sir William while acting g governor general at the Cape ape protested I in the strongest f fashion against the fool foolishness of the policy polley which neglected to tog t keep military preparations P n In line e with h pm the aggressiveness g n of the course to whir which w I Ithe I the home government had committed him Sir William declared that it would re require require require quire at least men to vanquish I the Boers as well as a n great deal more ordnance than England then possessed possesse d in South Africa and Insisted that it was wa I Iniquitous to provoke war without being s prepared for It For this he was recalled hold held up to public obloquy as ac a som something I very much c akin to t a traitor and sub subjected subjected to so o much h ht public execration that tha g t t I when Queen Victoria visited Bristol to t I open the infirmary there he was request requested te I ed to keep e away and abstain i from f the th e ale aleas as position which hl he should u have assume d I by bv her side as general in command of the th j l district lest leat the hooting and hissing hireling hl with wit h hI which It was wan expected that h he would d bo b C I I greeted by the populace ic should o rd mar the t th e eb eb l pleasure of or her majesty Every warning he uttered red however ee I has come true and the English people e now realize that there was at an any rate rat I one general clever cleer enough to s see e thing s sas as they really were and anti who had the th e courage to say sa BO so Sir William is being bein g I treated with the most marked and dis j consideration confederation I r n by the new ad administration j ministration ll I ri at the war nd department d ar e Lord Lor d d Roberts has haR been b n sta staying with him as a S his ills guest and all the wives of the sub subaltern su b altern officers at Plymouth t who a ab abstained b stained j d at first from fr calling Na on Lady But B Buther t ler her on account of the unpopularity of her he I husband are now cruelly regretting that tha t they were so shortsighted and that tint they th y did not show sW ili themselves e more friendly l y I when Sir William and his rR talented tc wit wife j I the tho painter of ot the Roll Roil Call CaU and of o f i other stirring battle scenes were under unde undera r a totally undeserved cloud I |