Show HOPES EXPLANATION I I Why the Transports Sailed I A Unfit Condition Washington Aug 13Surgeon General Sternberg has received a letter from Lieu tenant Colonel Hope who was the sur geon in chaiKO afSantiago until July 2 when he was relieved because of illness He writes that when the Seneca and Con cho sailed he was ill having suffered from a sunstroke and was unable to tal e active charge of matters and unequal to the responsibilities devolving upon him The Seneca and Concho are vessels which carried the sick and wounded to the Unit ed States and of whose condition great compla 2s made JJ i V |