The Kentucky Gazette

SAYS HE'S DISGUSTED

Burwell Cecil-Howard Refuses to Fight the Boers.

Declares the War Unjust and That He Has Resigned as a Battery Captain in the Colonial Service

A very much disgusted English man passed through St. Louis Wednesday on his way from Victoria, British Columbia, to London. He gave his name as Burwell Cecil-Howard, and declared that he had just resigned a captaincy in the British Army in disgust at the injustice of the war England is waging against the Boer Republic. He claimed to be a member of an old English family, and said he had been a battery captain in the colonial service of the Government for 10 years. For the last five years, according to his statement, he had been stationed at Victoria.

"I have served in South Africa, India and British Columbia, and like army life, but I will not fight the battles of a country that will make war with so little justice as England has for her quarrel with the Boers," said he. "I have never failed to denounce my country for its attempts to crowd the Boers off the earth and drive them from the homes which they built in a country that was supposed to be worthless until minerals were discovered there. England would not have had the country at the time the Boers took possession of it, but it is now valuable enough for a large army and millions of dollars to be used in getting possession of it.

"I think the attitude of England in this case is a blot on civilization. Whatever may be put forward to justify the quarrel, every Englishman knows in his heart that its only motive is to grab more country. When my country has a just war, I am ready to obey the call to arms, and shed my blood in defense of its cause. But my conscience will not permit me to help in an unrighteous quarrel. An army man, perhaps, should not have a conscience, but unfortunately I have, and I do not allow it to become blinded by any sense of military duty. The soldier has but one law--to obey.

The English Army, worried by its reverses in the Transvaal, is ordering its Canadian officers to its aid. It was a question of but a few days when the command would come to me to take up arms against the Boers. My soul revolted against any such plan. So I did the only thing that could be done under the circumstances--resigned my commission. I burned my uniforms, donned citizen's clothes and am now on my way back to England, where I shall be at liberty to express my opinion about the present outrageous war."

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