The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-03 00:00:00

THE WOUNDED IN TIME OF WAR;

In addition to the above, The Times also publishes
the following letter :
Sir,—Now that Sir Saler Jung, the distinguished ruler of
Hyderabad, Deccan, may be daily expected to arrive in Eng-
land, I shall be much obliged by your giving me a brief space
In your columns, that I may add a few particulars to those
stated in The Times of to-day, which shed additional lustre
on the name of one distinguished alike as a statesman and a
wise ruler in a State which since the fall of the King of
Delhi has been the chief Slahomedan Power in India.
J net at the time when the Mutiny broke out in India his
Highness the Nizam of Ifyderabs.d died, On he death-bed
he desired Safer Jung, to whom was intrusted the chief
authority in the Nlzam's dominiens, to bring his ton to him,
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continue continue faithful to the English.
By the wise policy of Colonel Davidson, the Resident, the
son was. placed on the Mumud as soon as poasible tatter his
father's death, and thei,Resident invited ,all the Stiff and
canamanding effiefri of the British force at Secimderabad
to the Nizam's 'palace in. the city, to be present at the
ceremony. .
On Colonel Davidson's return to the Residency, of ter the
instailatien, he found a telegram from Lord Canning inform-
ing him that Delhi had fallen into the hands of the muti-
neers, upon which he sent for Saler Jung and communicated
the intelligence to him. Salar Jung replied, "This was
known in the city three days ago."
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doing so than ellen all the English officers were collected in
the Nizam's Palace eurrounded by his armed retainers and
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prietors in the _Hyderabad territory to repo r once to the
city, and by piecing larwe bodies of these abr and fearleis
men at each of the principal gates, with orders t
any e uho attempted to incite the people to ristieraegialinPosTti
the English.
These energetic measures saved South India for had the
people of Hyderabad risen aganw us, the Alithimedan Pu.
latiun of M.dras w•iuld, it was well known at the PrentEnuP°,Y
le:ve followed their example; and it is but Jut to this die
tieguished man that the people of England should be in.
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formed how entirely the stability of British rule in South
India was owing to the wise and energetic measures adopted
at this crisis by Sir War Jung.
Having held the chief military command in his Highness
the Ntram's dominions tor some years, and having been con.

Colonel Loyd-Lindsay presided in London, on Mon-
day, at a meeting of the Royal United Service Institu-
tion, when a paper was read by Mr. S. Moore on
"Assistance to the Wounded in Time of War." The
author said that in 1870 71 he had served with Mr.
Manley's division of the Woolwich ambulance in the
Loire campaign, when he was an eye-witness of the
prompt relief afforded to the wounded by the excellent
9 system of fold hospitals in use in the Prussian army.
The wounded of the French army suffered severely at
1- the commencement of the war, most probably
o on account of a short-handed medical service,
and even the Prussiane, with their wonder-
folly•arranged organisation, succumbed here and
there to the press of difficulties. Two general
principles appear to be acted upon with regard to the
wounded; the one is that of separating the wounded
from the moving force, then isolating and distributing
them. The other, upon which the British Medical
service has been conducted, is to carry the wounded
along with the army. In the British service 27 ambu-
lance waggons are needed by each brigade, but in the
Prussian service only six per oivision of two brigades,
which are supplemented by four moveable field
hospitals containing 800 beds, with a reserve of two
field hospitals, containing 400 beds, giving tem-
porary ward shelter to the wounded. On the British
system the 27 waggons are supplemented by two
field hospitals, with a reserve of one and three
quarter field hospitals, in which there is only shelter
for the very severely wounded, the remainder being
carried on with the moving force. Each Prussian
battalion takes the field with a medicine cart, a few
stretchers, and two surgeons, with four bearers pr
cluipany. In slight engagements field hospitals are
not established unless by orders of the general of
division, but in general actions they are set up at some
distance in the rear of the bandaging.places which are
just outside the range of the enemy's rifles. The sanitary
detachment is made up of a fixed proportion of ambu-
lance carriages and store wagons and equipment, as
well as surgeons, bearers, nurses, drivers, &e. There
are three sanitary detachments to each Prussian army
corps, one being attached to each of the two infantry
divisions, and the third held in reserve. Mr. Moore
found fault with the Prussians for not placing the
whole medical staff under the prinicpal medical
officer, who should be responsible for all the
medical work. With respect to the Briti.l system,
he stated that the numbers were wholly insufficient; the
total number for an army corps being set down as
2,193 on a war footing. He believed that at present
the whole number of the Army Hospital Corps did not
exceed 1,500 men, and how was its strength to be
raised to 16,000, being 2 000 for each of the eight army
con i s in the mobilisation scheme? He thought there
was but one approximate solution of the difficulty pos-
sible, viz, to draw on the auxiliary forces (the volun-
teers) for the strictly military portion of the personnel
required and on the National Aid Society for the
civil portion. Mr. Moore showed how six men from
each volunteer company would supply 10,482 bearers
sufficient for our eight army corps, and, in conclusion,
described the best form of railway waggons for the con-
veyance of the wounded.