| Show CAMPAIGN englishmen LOSING THEIR admiration FOR HIM new york jan 14 A dispatch to the new york tribune from london says for many months past the average englishman has tad a warm corner in bis heart tor dewet the pluck and intrepidity ot the dashing free stater and the wonderful manner in which he Is carrying on a losing fight against our overwhelming odds appeals to the finer instincts of the people of this country who are sportsmen in the best sense of the term As ft matter of fact very latue interest Is bakon in any engagement in which dewet is not directly or indirectly engaged and not even a budget of alarming messages from cape town about the la caslon ot the colony cause anything like the excitement which attends the news of a raid on the british lines whether successful or otherwise by the commandant of the boer forces in the orange river colony it Is hy no means improbable however that a revulsion of feeling will be induced in england at all events toward the redoubtable enemy of tha british empire by general Kitch eners latest dispatch flogging as a mode of punishment Is distinctly odd to the code of civilized warfare and the british commanders announcement hat by debets order three agents of the peace committee have been flogged in a boer laager near landley Is sure to call forth some hostile comment which will not be any less bitter because one of the victims of this instance of petty tyranny who was indeed shot after being flogged was a subject of queen victoria the announcement which is made by the post that the scheme tor raising colonial police forces has been abandoned for the present cannot in the light of recent events cause much surprise the rates of pay were not considered tempting enough by the people living in south africa and of men who applied in the united kingdom to join the force only five hundred or eo were selected as suitable it will be remembered that it was announced from pretoria early in october that police wore to be enrolled in the transvaal and orange free state bader command of gen baden powell A few days later the colonial domce issued an announcement to the effect that recruiting was taking place in south africa only but in november the government asked tor 1000 recruits from the mother country and in december they decided to increase this number of it has now apparently parent ly been agreed to drop he whole scheme altogether and in order to meet the requirements of gen kitchener further enlistment of yeomanry will be called for |
