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THE DAILY EXAMINER CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE

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THE MISFORTUNES AND MISTAKES OF

LORD METHUEN. Some supposed mystery about Lerd Methuen is one of. the principal

weights on the British mind with re- gard to the war.

Is Methuen any good?

What is the truth about his first re- port of Magersfontein ?

Why has he been kept at the front? —these are some of the inquiries vol- leyed at whoever has had the misfor- tune to be invalided back from the front.

They are difficult questions to deal with,

To answer the first one causes pain to one who, like myself, shared the fortunes of the noble lord’s army from the beginning upto Magersfontein. The next two questions should be ad- dressed to the War Office, though the understanding of the usually well in- fermed is that Methuen’s first Magers- fontein report—returned as “defective in form”—was in reality withheld be- cause he went tov deeply into the sore point of the cause of the panic of the Highland Brigade. As to this matter, for which he has been most angrily criticised, military opinion is beginning to lean heavily toward the decision that a general in command cannot be held responsible for a brigadier-gener- al’s tardimess in opening up his ranks

after the subordinate general has taken full charge of his troops and begun a movement against the enemy.

rHE VALUE OF HIS DEFEAT.

I am inclined to put Lord Methuen in the very first place in estimating the value to Great Britain of the leaders with which she outfitted her army at the beginning of the war. The worth of the example he set and the lessons learned from bis operations cannot be too highly appraised. It is even a question whether Lord Roberts himself would have so rapidly and_ brilliantly pushed the war to a conclusion but for what was learned from a study of Methueu’s earlier campaigs. Moreover if any reader fancies this is pure sar- casm, let him pause and think how in- adequately Methuen was equipped for what he had to do, and let him be posi- tive that if the Government gave the great field marsal plenty of cavalary, it was because it saw how dangerously Methuen had been stinted in this re- spect; if it gave the field marshel the support of that master cavalryman, French, it was because Methuen ob- viously suffered for need of such a right arm; if it gave “the Little Man” a force six times as strong, numerical- ly, as his enemy it was because the lesser superiority of numbers under Methuen had failed so signally.

Finally, when, with her majesty : warm approbation, the Committee of Defence sent out Lord Roberts by an order issued over the heads of the War Office, be sure that it was done be cause the earlier commanders ‘ad de monstrated the need of military genius and genuine command at the head ot the British forces if the huntsman’s cunning of the Boer were ever to be overmatched by strategy.

TACTICS WITHOUT STRATEGY.

It is only fair to Lord Methuen to say, upon the latter point, that he was by no means the only British officer who did his best to impress upon his fellow-countrymen the fact that tactics and strategy are different things, and that the first can never take the place of the second.

That moral was even more startlingly pointed at Paardeburg than at Mag- erstontein.

Lord Methuen has not had great success in this war, but he is too good a man, to high a type ofthe Anglo- Saxon, to be subjected to any criticism which does not take into account his personal qualities apart from his equip- ment as a general. He is a thorough- bred gentleman of that high Class

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Dear Sirs,— Within the past year] koow of three fatty tumors on the head having been removed by the application of MIN- ARD’S LINIMENT without any eurgical operation and there is no indication of,a return.

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) which has distinguished itself, in this

war rather by casting in its lot with the rest, and not only sharing every hardship to which the humblest clay was subjected, but setting a priceless example of daring unto death. If these aristocrats who were in high places had neither genius for war nor deep knowledge of its science, it must be said that they possessed the other qualities of leadership, and were al- ways in the front in battle. Of that stock is Lord Methuen, courageous to the last degree in war, courtéous in the fullest measure to those around him, a proud man, yet gentleaad modest— and pious as well.

WHERE HIS STRENGTHS LIES.

What his critics agree upon is that, he would have shone as a_ brigadier. He would carry out with courage and dash the most trying orders that could be given, but he has not the qualities which make a commander-in-chief, or even a corps commander. He lacks initiative, solidity, originality,ingenuity, and, more than all, confidence in him- self.” ,

There is a public man in America of whom it is said: “You can always tell what he is going to do until he makes up his mind—then he wob- bles.

So it is with Lord Methuen ; he is full of confidence in himself until he is actually in a fight, then he gets “‘rat- tled.” Heis not one of those whe cam put on responsibility and wear it like an easy glove. He is not of the distinguished few who know their own limitation.

He was handicapped at the start in many ways ; in some by his own fault —in others by the War Office. He hada sufficient force, for no one now believes that the enemy he fought was in any case nearly as large as was sup- posed at the time. But his command was not properly made up. He did not have anything like enough artillery or mounted men, ora single cavalry leader who was fit for his job} The intelligence he got of the enemy was scanty and false, the intelligence the enemy got of his dvings was thorough. Before the British knew better, they used sometimes pay to salaries to the enemy to betray what went on in our camps.

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As a family remedy it has been used and ia. dorsed for nearly a century. Every Mother should have it in the house for many common ailments, Internal as much as External.

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