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A STARTLING THEORY SOUTH AFRIOAN BUNGLES. HAODOMALD AMD H« SUPERIORS. Following are some facts and surmiseß put forward by a gentleman in "Wellington who has had personal acquaintance and epistorlary communtca- - turn* with Sir Hector Macdonaid for a • losg period. As a possible—and evea ' probable explanation of the sad tragedy which cloeed General Macdoc aid's lifr, the remarks will be read with the greatest interot at the pre ■snt moment. The idea has obtained genera) cur- :, rency that the offence attributed to Sir Hector Macdonaid was one of a moral
c character. This is highly improbable, [ awing that Sir J. West Ridgeway has it non amenable to Geylonese - (or CißgaleseV law. There is every i:'reason to conclude, observes our inform- £ ant, tbat the offence was of a purely I military character. Sir Hector Mac- £ Donald had incurred disfavour in mi.'i- £ Uiy circles during, if cot before, the £> South African camp-ign. This fact p-.was freely discussed in Scottish tews ?" papers at tbe time, when ho was en *• tour in the colonies—and bis appoinN t toant to the comparatively insignificant - 'command in Ceylon was looked upon i as a military slight. r The view of tbe Highland press was f tbat he had spoken all too plainly cf the V incompetency of certain superior c flicer* I' in South Africa, and that he resented :- the treatment which the Highland ' 'Brigade had received during the cam7. paign—especially at the hands of an who fought all thrcugh the war ;£' and ended by being captured. Major~:G«nerald Mac Donald is said to have i considered certain military movements f in which he and his brigade were called 3 upon to take pirt to be incredibly t atupid from a strategical point of view. f- The- fact is that it was stated in Scots' tish newspapers while Sir Hector Mac?'t Donald waa in New Zealand, that he j* mi threatened with oourfc-maitial for V-. "indiscretions" in this connection. £ Folly conscious as he must have been -" of having incurred the displecsure of t? of rumours to that effect—it would be, '" as our informant urges, highly improbl able tbat he would allow himself to in- > cur further disfavour by committing ;T offences cf a moral or military character .- while in Ceylon. Sir Hector was married while yet in . the ranks; he leaves a wife and son in '-, Scotland. There is reason to believe ; that his married life was uchappy, 1 - though it is extremely unlikely tbat - this is in any manner conduced to last week's sad tragedy. ' Rather was it, oar informant argues and confidently asserts, the baneful infiuenca on a highly sensitive mind " of monster inf gratitude and green-eyed jealousy on •'. the part of military snobs who were born great or had greatness thrust upon them, but who could never by virtue of - native incapacity achieve greatness." "If," our informant further asks, "he was, as implied in the cablegrams, re- - called, deprived of his command and pension, and asked to submit to courtmartial (at the hands of his detractors, possibly), what was there left to 1 im to make life worth living." "Is this another Dreyfus affair?' That is the pertinent question put by the dead man's friend. "It if," he .. asserts, "a well-known fact that it wes - by taking liberties *ith the instructions of a superior officer that Sir - Hector Macdonald achieved hid crowning triumph at Omduiman. Ic ia also well kcown tbat but for the war correspondent and the press tbe glory of ■-■' that achievement would have bten onjoyed by another than Micdonald. As v it was the recognition of his services was alow, belated, and insufficient! "That he may have 'fallen' is possible enough. Meantime, pending further knowledge, let me charitably attribute his sad end to causes o'hor than a consciousness of irre'rit vable moral delinquency."—N.Z. Times.
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