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Show P MS Ipdal Promises to jSwn Equitable JIgin TO KY OF "GRAFTS HteAre Provid- MlsWitha iffssuc. K Ctlbuno. The "War Stores Increase instead I ieen expected. In- Jg" appears to be Srsons o hlsh de- Equitable Life As-5 As-5 ftlnB,, scandal has I it names of New I u an Issue. 5 !ct that the struggle 1 "dla between Lord Ktlng the military jBord Curzon, repre-Ks'of repre-Ks'of the shadowy Kule and civic sov-fcy sov-fcy bitter and may Hitlon. of Lord Cur-iWfe Cur-iWfe triumph of the Mas personified by rKyu have an issue flKrals can appeal to ine hope of winning jBflssue, In fact, upon iwe to unite all of HjRjhas been brought Jd many years. LmcL of Better. Iifeat of the Gov-Drobable Gov-Drobable that an i must take place the "War Stores up as the "parage "para-ge greater the at-I at-I to the agitation ;:,worpe are things "when finally un-Hhe un-Hhe report of the Accounts, vhlch ibllc, possesses an Lt it covers a por-1 por-1 which the War s at present en-t en-t Weight. :ates the report, iverc sold by the mtractor as one-transpired one-transpired that ,ere four ounces my service corps Is entered qs one-mplete one-mplete Ignorance im contained acts stated in ex-le ex-le colonies from ey sell it at nom-ntcrpreted nom-ntcrpreted at the ourteen and one- itnc result or tnis (17,704 pounds of Jam 1 tat a loss of $5000. k insiders It unfortu-'i unfortu-'i office did not draw ' fe,who took the Jam j6-po'und tin did not I one pound of jam. Unsound. uestiou of the emer-I emer-I 125 of' which were 1 ilachonochie under rftwo years. Within L :e, found to be un-J un-J These were re-4 re-4 jjlssue of 365,000 ra- these were also fcommlttee Is that sent in defective ;liy call attention ;u.se In the contract 1 faconochie: i he House of Com-i Com-i tted to any part or tj or to any benefit , Irs' Control. Sthe destruction at t ftVe million rations, committee assigns ,i jglbllUy, and states 1' era due to circum- control of the offl- f Hi committee are of ymore unfortunate vfi been committed 3; tappolnt a financial I:ommanding the rong, Sir Fleet-r, Fleet-r, had ceased to i Blunt. Var Stores comas com-as frank almost as ex-Financial flee, Lord Stan-is, Stan-is, and stuck to lonpr since left tail of its intrl-d intrl-d him. first questioned )f -the cold stor-'anted stor-'anted to know at the contract had not even he work that he ake. Instantlv iat he had fully the man. wan : contractor in d by such lend ers In finance as Cecil Rhodes and De Beers. Rhodes the Shadowy One. Asked who the "shadowy person" so constantly referred to in the Buller report re-port might be. Lord Stanley did not shrug his shoulders and plead Ignorance, Igno-rance, as previous witnesses had dene. Instead he laughed and said: "Well, I suppose you might call Cecil Rhodes a shadowy personality, but I should certainly take his name as a guarantee so far as solvency went." Next the commissioners questioned him as to the advice he gave in regard to the sale of stores. Lord Stanley replied re-plied at once that he had advised such sales, but only in two specific instances first, in regard to oats; and second, in regard to bacon, both of which were nigniy pensnaoie goous. No Time to Discuss Bacon. "Take the case of bacon," he remarked re-marked genially. "While we were discussing dis-cussing with the authorities in South Africa how the stuff should be sold, the whole supply would have gone bad, and as a result we should have suffered a great loss. Naturally T advised its prompt sale In South Africa for whatever what-ever price It would fetch. He went on to discuss thegreat congestion con-gestion of stores that;was said to have arisen at the close of the campaign. It. this direction he did not mince matters In the slightest. As a matter of fact, Lord Kitchener expected extraordinary stores, he said. The whole country was practically dependent on the army for supplies, and this belief was Justified at the time. ? Explains Plethora of Oats. To excuse the enormous importation of oats into the South African countries at the close of the campaign Lord Stanley Stan-ley pointed out that whether they were sold or not, the same number of horses remained in the country, and there were no' civilian contractors to supply their needs. He could not, of course, read the mind of Lord Kitchener, he said, but In his opinion the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa had probably concluded that the supplies should, be sold at once. |
