Show SPIONKOP DISPATCHES House of Commons Discusses Their kt i Publication 3Lct London May iln 1 the House ol Commons the Karl of Portsmouth Liberal Unionist called attention lo the publication of the Splonkop dispatches dis-patches which hc said had aroused a depth and strength of feeling difficult s ° to exaggerate The Secretary of State for War the Marquis of Lansdowne In defending the publication uf the dispatches said It was the only course open lo the Government Gov-ernment Proceeding he quoted Ito Queens regulations relating to the r publication of such documents and printed out three cases In the Afghan war in which censorious dlspatchca were published adding that In thoe cases other employment was found for the Generals Regarding Spolnkop the Secretary claimed the Government might have i6 published nothing but the fact that the battle cost 1COO casualties and If the papers had been withheld the reputations jAt reputa-tions of the Generals would haTo been 4 damaged more than by their publication publica-tion Movements of Steamships Hamburg Arrived Pretoria from Iscw York via Plymouth and Cherbourg Havre Arrived La Touralne from hr New York Liverpool Arrived Wacsland from i Philadelphia Naples Arrived Kaiser WJlhelm II from New York for Genoa and proccltd Liverpool Sailed Georgia for New York Cherbourg Sailed Columbia from Hamburg and Southampton for Ncjr York New York Arrived Noorgc from Copenhagen Movllle Sailed Furnesla from Glasgow r sow for New York Southampton Sailed Columbia from Ci Tlninhnri fnr X ow Vnrk via horhourr ii |