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Show THE ARMYOF ENGUND It Has Fallen Into Disrepute and the Massei are Fighting 8hy of Enlistment, THE SOLDERS DISSATISFIED. They Don't Like the Way they are Treated Eegarded as so Much Food for Powder, London, Nov. 7. Special. Since the recent banishment of the Grenadier guards to India on account of Insubordination, Insubor-dination, and the discovery that a majority ma-jority of the few Balaclava survivors are spending their declining days in the poor house, it has become evident that the army has fallen Into disrepute with the masses. England, notwithstanding t he fact that she is now at peace with all countries, is making extensive preparations prep-arations for a conflict. Probably the most deficient of the branches of service ser-vice in regard to preparation is the army. Hardly a single regimont is at Its full strength. The classes from which the bulk of the rank and file is drawn are fighting shy of enlistment. The recruiting sergeants have increasing in-creasing difficulty in obtaining sufficient suffi-cient men to keep the regiments even on a peace footing. Everywhere the declaration is made that the army is deteriorating. Reform in the army has not kept pace with reform outside" the army. The soldiers know it and to this may bo aseribed part of the disaffection disaffec-tion that exists, and the desire that many of the men have to leave it. The commissariat department is far from perfect. The food supplied to the men is inferior in quality, and even the quantity quan-tity is Insufficient. The weapons with whioh they are armed, it has been demonstrated, dem-onstrated, are not reliable. Further, the men are harassed by needless and vexatious orders that have in so in - instances led to revolt. The fact is tiiat neither in peace nor war are the soldiers properly treated. Thev are simply regarded by the authorities as so much food for powder. The officers, offi-cers, however, are treated differently, as the honors showered upon Lord Wolseley show. He holds in addition various appointments with big salaries attached to them. His exploits in the Ashantee war were not conspicuously brilliant, and the victories in Egypt, it is claimed, would have been won if he were no nearer the scene of hostilities than London. Yet be receives a big income, and the men who fought the battles are left to starve. An agitation has sprung up In favor of the soldiers, and it may bring about soma improvement improve-ment in their condition. |