| Show cI CA P iii LS OF Tnt 1111 T I NA S RING Will Of Tilt BOElS VICTORY ON Tilt riff VElDT Peers and Commoners Angry at Irish ember l Who Wh Cheered f Y But I Ireland is london Dismayed and Gloomy Regards Rega ds It As Greatest Grea est can Colonies r March U of oft t L ft t ed 4 thee of n which wen universally heard beant bee base on the pub pt of Ute the ae of General Me dister There la little dispo disposition to the Incident but everywhere Is beard the determination I Ito to make ke the tradition that blows blow serve Berve serveto to strengthen and Uen British reso re Lord Rosebery Uck struck the pep p pular ular note noe today toda l In a before the studentS He admitted that It Itu was u heartbreaking after aU all the ex cx of lite time and mosey He 1 added u ft will m not us ua We ba have ve vet got t to see He tide this thing through We take the which fortune deals us with showing our ourselves selves RIves worthy of better fortunes Lord Lort Rosebery ed the hope that more tI times were In tore and that iD lathe the future It would be our Broud memory that when ou country pu passed through the storm we did dle not for a moment flinch and were not for an l Instant d Reports from the continent tt that the defeat deIt of General Gen 1 uen was followed fol followed lowed by another O also favorable to the Beers Boen some ome anxiety owing o to the he of news from General coln of 1 1200 men which mk left ft to Join General Methuen It is thought that possibly General may y have attacked Grenfell Gre felL ReinforcementS to be The rho war ar secretary Mr Brodrick when asked in the house hoWle of commons today what steps had bad been taken in view of the n of tile the Soars Boers against to send Lord Kitchener rein said aid 1 yeomanry would be Immediately embarked with la large e drafts of and ancl Infantry Lord Kitchener would be given an all the tbs assist assistance ance aiice he asked aked for tor DistInguIshIng tl feat features of tile the editor tale In this morn mornings papers on the latest Brit British everse In a South Africa are first the of sympathy for General which is hi quite extra ettra ordinary when It Is remembered 00 hoW he w was assailed with hostile and angry y criticism under the early stages ot of the war and setd the dentin denunciation or of the Irish members of parlia parila parliament ment who in iD ty at tile the reading by Mr BrOdrick In the house boue of commons log Lord capt Boers Boens Like Ilk Fathers The Daily News says the event has bas a parallel since the dark daIt dis ls days day wh when tM the North American I colonies acceded from BrItish control The Th Standard says saya this defeat comes after attEr a IU mishaps for which it is impossible to aC account by mere bad fortune When every Is made says th the Standard we cannot but find S net iq not creditable to our vigilance in these constant sur prima pl The Morning Poet points point out that General Methuen did not surrender but he wa wounded and aDd included in inthe inthe the by the next wounded of In the command It is commonly that a large larl e eart art i f the tte mounted men who ho td must have been hEEn Ii aw W yeomanry and that hat General disaster has baa been used for mont months s pat past u as a sort aon train trainIng Ing ground for new men while the sea I ned troops troop were withdrawn from his hise e command for operations 1 against Botha and Dewet ThIs incident the flight o f f w M Brit h fr from m the B Boers rs I is a art t of T the r The Tb DaIly says An uneasy uneuy feeling presents 1 itself as to wh whether the war var office may not be tip is ils gene J by Sending raw and levies f o EC e C Boer Delegates Appeal to the President to Use Good Go d Offices I Barbarity ar tAA War Wa r K March iLC H WAHL V V Wes els and A D W ass aRS the Beer tee In this country had a talk with Roe evelt today In the cOurse of their tRey they stated that they dered to particularly make known the president nt that they nelt er for tor de desired tred nor expected on onUte Ute the put part of this country or any ny other othel I country A number of mistakes have been I printed about our mission mi to tI this con coun country I try since we came to Washington said Mr Weasels and the worst one Is that we are trying to get tini We Ve know that this is not posit poat his bIe and aRd as 8 a matter or of tact fact we d dOnt nt want it Ii what we do want however and what hat we have laid before the American government ent is a request that civilized warfare be inaugurated In South Africa That Is all we want no now We have not put before belore the authorities authorIties ties any request that this or that plan be adopted to Insure the carrying out of the rules of oC civilized warfare but we will leave t that t wholly to the govern government ment to take whatever steps stepa It se lit lite We e want a fair and square ht We Weare Weare are that we will be able to keep this war going for a number of years yet and we think that tat all civi civilized Iliad nations especially the United States are Interested In the proper rules i of warfare being carried out We can aR point out numerous Jn of foul work It Is particularly noticeable that the English press itself comments on the probability that General M Methuen will be given decent care and attention by the Hoers Boers who captured him a fe few days ago Yet what did they do with General and a number of others They killed That story from England points to Its own moral and an Important one too President Kruger Is not seeking Intervention In Europe Md and all n stories of that kind may maybe be denied whenever they are seen The I Boors Boers have nothing to lose and aDd all to gain hy by up this n fighting They I may call calt It guerrilla warfare if they want but It Is at least hu humane war warfare I fare Borlin Amazed at Extent of the Blow loses Resentment and I i Of Methuen I IB March y ja is B pe ed e BY German states statesmen men Inca for lor the British The that Great Gre t Britain Briwn JI hag r ade made in blood I and aDd suM aid the foreign secrets ry made It only oDly humanly natural that her r should grow Irow more I acute Every harsh word was doubly 1 felt by her Every friendly address was i with double gratitude If the I members member of the diet wished to secure the cooperation of the British In help I ar the Boors Boers they nu must t abstain front from provoking Great BrItaIna u j ties bes There was a need of a some somewhat what more just mode of criticism of oC ofa oCa a somewhat more equitable adjustment of light and shade Baron said Mid If we feel ourselves more than coo con sins kin to England Bugland we shall be able to more effectively help our common con st in South Africa Let us os not always aume that everything done dowe by the EnglIsh h Is wrong and bd bad I may quote an example I have bave read tie de or of the concentration camps which mao made my hair stand on end A Afew I few days ago General yon von Trotha who from Crom his own eJi experience was Wall In a post po tion to report on n the matter was at m my I hou house e He said to me meI I consider It my duty and aDd author authorise I ise you to use my name to declare that I found the prisoners eam camps In ceylon to be perfect models model The former Ger German German man officers eileen In the camps had only a single there WItS was not nt variety of food Baron von R proceeded In my opinion the dignity of the na its nation tion would not have hae suffered derogation derogation tion It If It had displayed some ome human sympathy u as for r Instance ye yesterday when the De news came caine of the severe wounding of General Methuen With proper consideration for tor national feel teel lags t will be possible to make further progress In the direction de desired by the Hoer Boer reSet lenef committees I ii expressed In Hoer Boer circles In Holland and Germany The Berliner says It Is the Boers answer to En lands landsI I hl b rejection or of the Dutch offer of mediation Do De or of Am Amsterdam says say HIt It II will life ve the Bo vs ra a fresh lease of Representative Burleson Wants to Know if the British War om C Bar 1 B Marek UIn the V 1 senate ate ae Mr Burleson of Texas t tt day called attention to the reso reeo intrOduced J by him a few days MO calling upon the secretary of state for Information as to whether he had to request the Brit British ambas ambassador dor to passports for Rev Hiram W Thomas and wife of O e who were were selected to distribute funds fUnda collected In Illinois relief i of the noncombatant In I South Africa Mr Burleson tat he did not know personally the re report report I port on which his was based wu wag true It was wa stated that t the finds OOs were collected In to an appeal by Governor Yates bel that the t commit t tee having them In charge consisted or of Mayor Harrison Judge E F Dunne Duane and Peter Van He had gone to Secretary Hay Bay th the letter Jetter said ald with a letter from Senator Cullom and the secretary try of state stat lied had declined to make the request reque t of Lo fote on the ground that such a request would be considered meddlesome and anda a remissness of ef neutrality and anit the views of Rousevelt Rouse Roo e evelt velt Denounces the A If 11 tile the facts stated lit hi this letter are true said aid Mr then the statement w so With pro British spirit that It cl no DO longer to the on dl tates of bu manity when made in behalf o of Hoer Boer women omen and children Mr w said that under date of March 4 another had gone sone from frusa Mr Knight to Secretary Hay withoUt eliciting a response Mr said h his l purpose ln In having ha vi these letters read wu was to the attention of the American people on Ute the course of the state department Mr Hilt Hitt of illinois chairman o of the f foreign akin affairs COI committee replied to Mr with seine display dUplay of heat beat He said it was with singular surprise that he be bad heard use gentle gentleman gentleman man frees froIa Texas bring forward a regu reao lution which already had been referred to a committee of wJ whick he Burleson was a member and which committee was to meet on a day axed by bJ th the mc lion tion of Mr Burleson himself It was strange he said that Mr Burleson should rush JU in before action was taken or ci the Ie reply or of the secretary of state was received He said it was an effort to tIO prejudice ce the t ease before ore the evi evidence deuce dence was In Quotes Law of f Nations But why should not the secretary of state use UR his good offices to relieve the distress of th women and chil children dren in CI concentration camps campa asked Mr Burle on Mr fr Hitt Bitt replied that ac according g to Mr Kol Knights ht letter the secretary had of offered offered to help him bim In every way a in his power but bat h he manifestly could nut do doa a ridiculous thing The rules rule of inter international national law Jaw cn n th the question were yell itch Every old soldier of ither army who had bad been n in prison r during II the war ar un the situation Pt Jefferson tvis would riot not have bave allowed northern rs t perambulate through southern ei r iii pC to distribute relief The Th Secretary of the state depart mn could not make mak a demand which n I Ifal fal fac was o ray to all It would be a slap In tile the face of a for foreign sign eign government It bad not been n done In nur ur war or any war Mr Ir Sulzer Sulz asked if the British au 8 h hid not fl t declined to allo th the rr rs Tn n n lurt their humar work in South AfrIca Ir Hit caid sueh suu a t J Men been made mad And had been denied he dId not k w the p fa facts t Th Tb T j hay have Mr Jr from the Hot 1 11 in this country |
