| Show GEN LIEN BOILERS BULLERS REPUTATION TION He lie Has Shattered It by His Ills III e Advised Speech I TILE THE WAR W AU WILL WILb CONTINUE A it Cligh Official Think It liny La Last t Two To To 0 be tie Overcome London Oct 12 aThe The South African campaign has a I curious effect on Wit Brit British ish generals generas attention Is l cen centered tr J on Gen a Bullers extraordinary ry IY ex 1 while society is II gossiping bout about the tho remarkable action of ot another general This one oo Is a n knoght com commander I mander of at the Bath holding a 11 high command In South Houth Africa lie He Is over sixty I t years era of age has been a n widower for tor two years yearn ears and has hns engaged ed him himself him himself self by b letter to marry a woman of fifty whom he has hu not seen for twenty years carll The who Is an Irish Irishwoman IrIshwoman woman Is preparing to go out to 10 South Africa As for tor Gen Duller Buller he ho seems forever to have shattered every vestige of ot his reputation A representative of the Associated Press learns learna that previous to Gen len Bullers speech of ot Thursday he had Imd received several plain hints from the expressing the hope that he would pot not accept Invitations to make niche speeches Ills appointment to the com corn command command mand of the army corps was WaR made In Ina a II spirit of generosity It was thought that Gop Gen Duller Buller could not do much harm In the two years ears remaining before beloro he retired Failure to appoint him would have hae signified a public disgrace which the war office was waR not willing to inflict Indict on him believing that Gen Oen huh Bul Buller IMler huhler ler had done his duty to the best ot of othis othis his ability One of ot the tho highest officials connected with the administration of the army said to a n representative of the Asso AlSO Associated dated cia ted Press Iress The utilitarian spirit of at the age has haR taken away those sinecures such as S governor of ot Tilbury and chief of Berwick with which a n hundred years cars ngo huller Buller might be shelved and at nt the same time rewarded We had no alternative but to reward Gen Oen But Bui Buthers hers lers long and conscientious period of service by kicking him out or giving him a n command which his rank de tie demands mands Of ot the two evils we Me chose what we 0 thought least Our Justification Is III perhaps somewhat sen sentimental i but no army arm can cnn be run with without without out a certain amount of ot sentiment As for the public dissatisfaction with our progress In South Africa I fear that Lord Roberts Robert and other optimistic prophets are unintentionally more to blame than an nn one else cite No one got up and said the Burmah war was over oer or that It would be over ovel In a foolishly short space of time It lasted nearly four years and the British public took It as ns a n matter of course courte The Tho South African war has probably got another two years ears to run developing like hike the Burmah affair Into n a subalterns cam campaign campaign Continual local disturbances are fire being put down by the small email gar To supervise such Ruch work we WI know of no one better than Lord Kitch Kitchener ener Ills His lII chief ehler complaint which seems eem to have ha misted missed the attention of ot the crit critics lea Its lit is a that having noncombatant na nt natives tives populating the war area he Is prohibited from destroying supplies to tonny tonny any degree of ot military thoroughness It If we could concentrate or deport the na tnt natives tIns lives I think an nn effective devastation would quickly end the tho campaign |
