Show TAEES SECOD PLkCE Yellow Peril is Relegated in London for the Time HOSPITAL SCANDAL THE TOPIC I S i Treatment of Thousands of Wounded and FeverStricken Soldiers in the Field Threatens to Become a Very Serious Hatter for Public Agitation Suspicion is Strong in England that Many lives Wore Needlessly Wasted People Indignant at Way Men Were Treated j London June 30 Copyright 1000 by l the Associated PressThe Yellow Peril ns the Chinese crisis Is now called here Is for the moment relegated rele-gated to second place Public Interest In the hospital scandals In South Africa Afri-ca so absorb attention that no amount of official quibbling can suppress It The treatment of thousands of wounded and feverstricken British soldiers In the field threatens to become as serious seri-ous a matter for public agitation ns the military camps were after the SpanishAmerican war If Lord Roberts Rob-erts was not so frankly willing to shoulder the major part of the responsibility respon-sibility the outcry which Mr Burdelt Couttss letters raised would wellnigh have swamped the Government But few people care to seripusly criticise the General whose consideration for his men especially the wounded Is a byword Jn the army and elsewhere SAVED GOVERNMENT HEAD The action of Lord Lansdowne the Secretary of State for War Jn submitting submit-ting the criticism of Lord Roberts himself him-self was a master stroke of politics which temporarily saved the Governments Govern-ments head However If the proposed Parliamentary committee finds the War office failed to adopt necessary medical precautions it will take the j Conservatives a long time to reestablish reestab-lish their prestige with thousands In Great Britain who have suffered bitterly bit-terly through the loss and Illness of relatives In South Africa It has been hard enough for those bereaved to grin and bear the long casualty lists but with the suspicion that lives were needlessly wasted there Is no longer any restraint to their sorrow or limit to their Indignation DEFENSES OF EMPIRE A significant sign of the times Is the announcement In the July Issue of the Nineteenth Century that some of the most distinguished men regardless of party have agreed to Join an association asso-ciation with the object of fixing steadily steadi-ly public attention on the lessons of the war foremost among which is the necqssltv for examining the defenses of the empire and the need of conducting conduct-ing the various departments of state on ordinary business principles SHOES LIKE PAPER Viscount Deerhurst Colonel of a volunteer vol-unteer battalion of the Worcester regiment regi-ment In testifying before a Parliamentary Parliamen-tary committee this week brought home with startling force the rottenness rotten-ness of the material supplied to the army He declared that after paying nn extra price for shoes for the battalion bat-talion after Its march they were like paper bags with shreds of leather Inside In-side and you could easily put your fingers through the majority of the soles KIDGLOVED WARFARE An amusing story Is current regarding regard-ing Harry Beaumont one of the best dressed London clubmen who married Miss Jessie Fellowes of New York and went to South Africa as an olllccr of the Cheshire Yeomanry It is said that he requisitioned a Boer house for his own use but before occupying it he showered the building with Insect powder and drenched It with eau de cologneS cologne-S HOSTILE RECEPTION How tired the people of England are becoming of such kidgloved methods of warfare could be Judged the other night when Sir Evelyn Wood the AdjutantGeneral to the forces who is notoriously Influenced by feminine advice ad-vice received a hostile reception at the hands of such a broadminded body as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Engi-neers |