A "SPECIAL" ON ENGLAND'S WARS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1878, 2 January 1885, Page 2

A "SPECIAL" ON ENGLAND'S WARS.

Mr Melton Prior, a ."special artist. 1 ' of the Illustrated London ' News, in reply to an interviewer said, ('Precious little good has corae of all our fighting, so far as those English wars are con-: cerned. - If you or any other man can show me any good that has come to England or to anybody else from those campaigns in Ihe Soudan, for instanoe, I give it up. We went to relieve the garrisons, and found the enemy's guns served ;by men whom we went to jrelieve... We did not open the road to l&rber ! and SB for .securing the safety ol Souakim, Osman Tyj.ll be there -like, a. Bho't as soon as the last of our soldiers iV' withdrawn. I hai',dly think you will say that our fpnspaal war djd wy good. At least JL hardly see tlje fufi of being Ifokei} foiir tijpes running and then giying in, while tfrp Jjpyals who trusted us were left to be ruined by t])e men who had whipped us, Iu Zululand also it was a pretty mess. Battles enough and bloodshed j but at the end of it all everything fas worse than before. In ■like manner pur fightjng amopg the JBasutos came to nothing. |t yuined many Basutos and coßt a deal of money but that was all. In fact, so far as the TO in which we have been engaged are oonoerned—and I have seen them all for the last do?en yeps outsjde Asia —John Biill had much better have stopped at Lome and kept the powder dry instead of rampaging about the world killing his neighbors,