This Weihaiwei business, coming in the midst of the Remount Scandal, has certainly not increased confidence in the War Office. Day by day fresh facts ara coming to light. The services of Captain Hartigan, who confessed to bovine revcieved commissions in connection with the purchase of horses in Hungary, have been dispensed with; and last night Mr. Brodrick admitted that a veterinary officer had resigned his commission and forfeited his gratuity of £800 rather than face a charge of receiving commissions on horses bought in New Orleans. It would be unfair of course to blame the War Office too severe ly for the fact that at a time of enormous stress and difficulty they have not succeeded in entirely guarding themselves against the unpatriotic and perhaps even fraudulent rapacity of those supplying war materials. There has never been war yet in which such things hare not happened. "ut that the War Office is not even now conducted on the best principles can hardly be denied after recent disclosures.
Mr. Chamberlain and the City.
There was a wonderful demonstration in the City yesterday when Mr. Chamberlain went first to the Guildhall to receive an address from the Corporation and then to the Mansion House to be feted by the Lord Mayor. The City authorities naturally did their best to mako the demonstration a big one, even outside the precincts of their ancient hall.
is) an interesting fact that the only precedent for paying such an honour to a statesman or public servant—the presentation of an address to one who could not be given the freedom of the City because he already possessed it—took place in the case of Mr. Gladstone; and I believe even in that case the Police authorities did not go to the length they have done in the present case—stopping all the traffic in the principal street through which the honoured guest was pass Th. result of this was of 20 tse yw ter crowds collected than ev.d uss have found standing room; ard the whole object was no doubt to impress foreign nations with London's absolute concurrency in the policy which Mr. Chamberlain represents. In his speech at the Guildhall the Colonial Secretary was so careful to avoid controversial politics and indiscretions that he was hardly so successful as he might have been. His eulogies of our army were very fine, no
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