| Show I DLAUGlS IDEA I Barrister Writes His Views lisllBnrrJster The En of the Egyptian Question yesterday addressed a Bradlnugh i Afr of the Jcrvith to the state 0 Ie reference jthi I letter to the Duke of Cambridge Egypt I aUD v Id in i marshal I commandinginchief field aB adopts this method he says Blithe ter that while my mouth is fact fronl the JLcd the only place where the grave in d 1 n J Sons dealt with in this letter could be quCStIOfl9 quOS raised there seems no one iot fllost properly le disposed to awaken public now just fl else 1 so C the subject He say he Itt I It Ion on attention the redtapism and VIS merhx lest I fears and the horseguards may of Pall Mall to our army in Almost as destructive be vigorous OpPO most the the Sfulal1 Mabdi as and his Iiefltcnint8 the of Ie j tlOn cds to ask if thmgs Ore 1 Ind then proceeds than they were in 1882 any bettr in 885 footing our army He says On a peace higher than that of costs proportionally e At home ands anV otliC 1 EurOIean COStS power ab ont 34500 India our army > this in Surely I not at var are 000 when etir ought to insure reason enormous outlay d and well fiequippcd I certainty O f e1 eqm pc i this ble tune of war But is a handled 1 force In transport broke down the dOlW In 1882 all FO 1ts improved tO1itY the arrangemel CIico Are cording to the evidence Egypt lYr lSS accorulD fissistmt g adjutant and of f 01 1rtTJgdn rt1 the regimental qnartcrro1S WlIS jnCOmlete I the troops were triflSPt rienccd in its use the depart pcrienced was incomplete and tmnsport mtal otauizatiOIi was faulty the ItsT transport was very late iuxilY and 1iring it was very incomplete In Nonranization fir was practically nonexistent it a tent What improvements have you I made in desert transport in the two years siiioe Your muchvaunted Canadian I boatmen we learn arc now being sent home although skilled boatmen are certainly cer-tainly needed on the dangerous Nile Why is this Are they like the auxi who liaries employed as drivers in 1882 failing to get clothing promised to them bv your brothers when they enlisted were obliged wo are told by Mr Reeves assistant commissary general to he mutinous and strike altogether before they could even get boots although they complained that the sand of the desert was so hot that it burned their feet when the groceries were ungetable the tea and coffee packed away under heavy ordnance the rum hidden under a siege train and the cheese and sausages stowed inaccessibly under railway trucks We have the evidence of Commis fiary Gen Sir Edward Morris that 1SGs 412 pounds of flour sent to Egypt in 1882 from England wa nearly all bad even Sir John Adye admits that 10000 I eacks were unfit and Commissary Gen Saunder says that when bread was made it was difficult to tell it from bricks What guaranty has your royal highness taken that the poor privates and noncommissioned non-commissioned officers have better food today in the Soudan than was suppied two years ago Gen Morris says that the bad bread in 1882 made the men disheartened dis-heartened and dispirited although as Sir John Ayde says the campaign was then short and successful Today the campaign is long and difficult what precautions pre-cautions have you taken that the men shall not now be disheartened and dispirited by bad flour not only supplied by dishonest and rascally contractors but hich must in 1SS2 have actually been passed by incapable or criminal officers for General Morris declares So far as I jmdmy officers could judge it had never eren apparently been good It is true that Sir John Adye an officer whom you trust declared last year when examined as to the bad flour that there is a tendency ten-dency to spoil soldiers and to supply the army with a great many luxuries Is this the view of your royal highness or have you ever reprimanded this wellfed and extravagantlypaid officer for his heartless indifference to the miseries of the of tan halfstarved men in Egypt IB 18S2 when fighting near eRamses the men lost all the rations in reserve because the regimental transport completely broke down the carts were unfit and too heavy the harness was absolutely rotten Deputy Commissioner Geheral Saunder lays Large quantities of supplies were teen all along the road to the camp aban ted as I rode out for eight miles I saw tfiing so far as you could see almost but overturned carts with their loads lang about in the all directions And then as your royal highness well knows there was but little effective ef-fective resistence offered by the Egyptians to our troops and the army was never far distant from its base of supply Today we have a desperate and hardfighting foe to contend with and literally long and dangerous marches oi distance between the fighting regiments regi-ments and their base Has your royal highness l taken any and what steps nce 1882 to guard our own soldiers against hunger in their desert march Are the erbswurst rations in better state than in 1882 when out of 9300 pounds pent out in tins there was not a single case in proper order or fit to issue when it reached the front the cases being broken and the whole of the tins inside opened Whose then was the fault or rather t the crime of neglect in 1882 Which high officer was tried and punished pun-ished since its discover Or was it all hushed up the criminal l officers getting promotion instead of punishment And nave the men today possibly like or even greater evils to contend with In 1882 when there was fighting were we-re told by Sir John Hanbury chief Jolmllanbury m ed imiil officer to the Egyptian expedition that a field llOspitlll was lying useless far Way from the wounded because he vr1d get no transport to Convey it to the telti of battle and that after fourteen 1J h5 Our kicking about from pillar to post hosplt5i abandoneI his attempt to get the field Abu l KI to the front It is true that at iiea and at Gubat wounded Were ten men a t cw clays for ago writhing in agony J tie rant Ul medicines and is this from MevnVt Eflifle cause Was it true > as 111 > l > avaln c i n stated that in 1882 both and artillery having foundit im JOsib15 K e to drag the ICIfl chests I foragecarts and med left flielO i across the desert they had nev TO behind i and were without mcdi i now the Same tlung happening again and if cs It yes why YI hat horses care have you taken that the In Sod camels shall have good food an G J ° are told by Deputy Commis l nRlandn Smiunder the hay sent from hoLouJ to d Egypt was so bad that the ° fSsfoia o If not eat U and that on some it it wo0 the men objected to sleep upon S5s so offensIve It rotten was perfectly director ifG learn 1 too that in 1882 the r of hud it nS Ty contracts after having S ctinraSy reported to him by one CCting not S38 Officer that certain hay was that one CJOUgh actually telegraphed hain th of time objects of Buying and trict e inspection in the western dis the yas lt that time excessive rigor of WOOlujcli l avoided Ich insPection might be was rebuked and the inspecting officer Press 1 the h and old that < he was to royal highness hay as It comes Has your throUgh gWhess caused any of tbe officers Win ite0 ten hay was sent out to 1882 hilI Or have ntobettried by courtmar any Of the bay contractors t been fined or imprisoned or what means have been taken that our cavalry now in Egypt shall not be disabled by bad food supplied to their horses I do not expect that your royal highness high-ness will reply to this letter but I hope before long to put every one of the above questions from my place in the House of Commons where at least my constituents constitu-ents have a right to answers |
