| Show TO I 1 r HA ff I 1 REAR GUARD 0 li lieutenant le uter tant ro position with that fated liand band LT ul BIS HIS he lit insists ilat that it was lot III business to clu orders t to t bejer Bartt litt ithe wai wal in commack Com macd malid 0 1 STANDARD special 3 F chronicle Service 1 naw YOKE YORK nov I 1 in malting making public the letter which passed between himself and stanley lieutenant J rose troup one ot of tha the officers ol 01 tho the eman relict relief expedit expedition lon liu has added items strong evidence in defense 0 of I 1 hil his position ile relate his version of 0 incident incidents at ten in plain and forcible ED englith glish v which admit admits of little twisting or turning turn lne in substance sub he be throw throws the ant entire ire response sl ability ol 01 the rear col column dumns horr horrible ible fate late on the boulder shoulders of major Bart ellot and then turn turns upon stanley anil and upbraid him for blaming subordinate officers tor for the deed deeds of their superior 11 he contradict stanley tn in an important pointer point regarding garding e order orders the explorer explore maintain U th thai let he lie cn commanded ded the rear column to follow and anti aid 4 little about alternative alternatives troup throw thrown thir thin leht upon the matter in hie his II letter e I 1 oil of march I 1 ath ISM 11 al 11 t dwa auseth Au apt 14 the very day 07 I 1 arriT arrived td I 1 in n tb ta trip ol 01 ill the e it r boad wa was taken b home ome by 1 walker NI beir and arid published abl ed b by the committee in the newspaper of november 29 nan 1897 a cow copy ol 01 which I 1 enclosed marked marke dB ab what does h say rayf I 1 part particularly leu call ir to paragraph paragraphs at the end 0 nou b it letter tt ter it if hw howver r t they hey I 1 the he men on bp prom hi hied bi by io I 1 I 1 tib do not mo come I 1 boli shall 11 be cin compelled 1 I to are stay here to u til I 1 o aben n mr stanley exi expect ct to return or till such time afterward afterwards ai he may return n hostar studying Y your 0 written 1 instruction t with t these verbal z additions d tion as furnished by tho the officers you left la in command what was to 10 be gathered from them simply bis ilits you mentioned ceria certain n con tina encie ciet and a us u bertin alternative W which I 1 condense into the following formula fir fart I 1 advance when Bt earners return it if TI tippo alpo T tib lib haj lias bent sent the promised nix six hundred men wen I 1 second advance with the me men n u have it if tippo tib lendi sends some bu but not aro aft of f the men third it tippo tib doci does not tend on d any of of the vi men t n make marche archee ra twice over fourth fourt h obliges yon to t throw h away I 1 too well many y loads stay T where broto ere yo you u are till I 1 return 67 tw lt the paragraphs any way yon you like I 1 ca cannot t see ee what other meaning c ing the they could 14 convey to anyone aa and ad a although though L I 1 endeavored deavo red an so month months went on by re reading n g and rereading reread i InK n g them theta over ond a and over ove r age I 1 and 1 n them with other of officer feers I 1 wa was unable koput to put any other interpret interpretation all on your word words than vi what hat I 1 have haves a 3 above further on ho he say ill 11 II we ol 01 t the be rear X guard u d were I 1 ply IT an exploring I 1 ming expedition alti and ad only been beer left lef t behind NI nd to await I 1 the arrival of the fw supplies lupp lle of 0 cloth etc to enable us u to barter with the natives we would have advanced with whatever men we had 13 hut at this was not the case 11 he 11 we were re t the he rear go bierd rd of the relief expedition and were bentru ted with the rele safe plug and transport of a lar arge g e quantity of rorea our instruction were to bria bridox X up these tore re II 11 we 0 could to cavall but if unable to uld doto do 0 o to guar auard them fately till your YOU I 1 return r it wai not f fi five vernei men rush I 1 nelba id headed alter after you and nd letting the R load 0 go o he hang 1 tor yon 0 may be sure ure that the t bad I 1 had bad ill abie I 1 opinion or n ac I 1 should not or h have hea to ted to follow ou on your trade track sooner than ha bae s ia 9 down in bambu ta to camp a 10 u undergo d 0 raa the b awful trials an I 1 harrowing benei e e which in pile of 1 1 ah the many m a constraint were u un tie ce or 1 1 b brought r h na about bout by rickless rec klea con yuet of major V bat hat do you think of ug us in Yarn buys with a any amount of of cloth etc etca to four d daya fro from in stanley 3 1 1 k aey falli falls aher where plenty of food could have hey been en burch pur ehmed L PC d yet never an becort w made by malor r da Z ginev jOt t to help our poor stara barving tar ving I 1 g genf n it Is I 1 absurd to a ay that the T tippo lp tib ni related to supply us with tho fool tool lie he tta was never aked asked again he adji adds when I 1 was at go bomani amrit and bad had expended the handkerchief handkerchiefs and on food for the tarring starving men I 1 was aeberly reprimanded tor for it t Is apparent to machat nothing eburt abort of acting indirect in direct opposition to major bartel lot would have en ended bled led ui us to have saved moved the rear gu guard but that would have been mutiny and alyo you u would be the first one to condemn uch such action ai as you placed him B Uarl ellot in supreme comman command making me I 1 like ike all 1 10 others 1 hr nis subordinate baa 1 I d decline 11 I 1 to accept your statement that I 1 was in any ay for the disaster of the rear guard 1 11 Stan stanleys leys 1 I 1 a ga reply pi Y to I 1 this his letter lette r was 1 a all sharp and 1 vigorous vi goroun y and in it he made various ar 1 arf charges at to a against g abriel tor troup 0 u censuring him for not interfering I 1 e r I 1 UK with Burt ellot troup he however wever met mot him on his own ground and rid his answer not refuted the but took the explorer re r seriously eer louly to task for blaming all the 0 a cers of the rear juard guard ben hen there wai was but cue one in command m n beanley realms that troup was not loyal that hadid be did n t L tak taka ordinary steps to prevent the horrors of uva and that all the officers of this section of the expedition are at fault tor for not forcin forcing Bar to take it r action toward it his F a men thee neither nell her stanley nor troup concede the point i nt in ll 11 the r correspondence and each r still I 1 met maintains a taina his original stand |
