The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-17 00:00:00

PERILS OF WAR.

Eitirredrilreoent meats la the Saudis, an old
soldier, in Doroheeter, leads us tha following
%Willa( of (hi Indies Mutiny :
ROHM military motto in the 8 Judaa have wlvisa •
ethattlas to Use poblio desks for Maiden's In comma
ties with dm fortunes of war. In each suomesins war
Into wild) we plow, if ihe Prem they ho
credited, melt suassemin battle is win dnsadfal
than Ass last. Is mbar fact, however, In none of the,
recent hairdos is Zgypt or the Hondas have our
lesserintiosairroportion Ito the number engaged—been
azop y rovers War, however, even In its
mildest form, la frightfal enough ; walling. of agony
Irma wouedad mot Amos of gore, and shattered
e babe ar a mouraful outcome of our preomoeived idea
of the "pomp and circumstance of glorious war."
Qtdot Dore*t folk are visibly affected by them harrow-
ing details, mach more so its, tim &vixens of our
large sad miming cities. During • time of war them
are always • vast number of hair-breadth serapes,
which are rarely or nem, recorded, and which in most
instances come only nadir the south sawn of the lower
make. limy of them maws% Donn of which the
writ*, ham born ayewitnese of, border as miraculous.
The writer of this muslaimenos was premed ander
Gaming Havelock at lb* memorable relief of Locknow
Is Septensbor, 1857, in which a small form of 2.100
mea had 535 is.. sod SO damn killed and wounded.
Thiele. occurred in this dretscUal struggle to Combat*
the ally to the relief of Um poor suffering starrfeon—
onnlinne•d to • largo ant sot of wont,n and children—
who were surronadod by hordes of marderoue smuts
!Admen/ for their blood. The force Muted from the
• Alessi:sigh " (Klae's Garden), about • mile from the
{Sty, at shoat 9 a.m., sad was met by a murderous fire
is its advance to, and °rooming the " Charbagh " (Four
Gard's') bridge, which gave us west to the city.
Prom theme, to avoid the main streets, 40111111 which
trasobes bad been doe sad the booms of which were
implsooled and filled with bevy.; • detour was made,
by which w• escaped with trifling loot until we male
wia 15(0 11. olty opposite the ' Kalserbagb "or New
Tame. From the palace sad iteenrirons we were as
imbed by a murderous fire, and many wens killed
sad monads& It WM feud neosesary to halt bare
kr a shod time, and fuming found mom protection,
'TOO the It. pourbg doom on us from tbe seism, be-
hind sane damned homes, a fresh isan• of ammuni-
tion was made, sad th• wounded collected together
1.1=1:, ' Ififtl darewthried,d°•;en lb. strist
ut 70 In putt..
were mama In " dhooliae " In the usual Indian
mosaar, m soon as the oolanus forged also of th•
eawsrdly &smile beast forsook their charge, and the
nefortusate wounded were surrounded and massacred
almost to a was. One of them, however, a young
fellow aaamd Glover, who early ia Um day had his
aka almost clan open by a blow from a ' (clear "
(satin sword) amewod amidst the desperate carnage
to amp'; and asvcoured to rejoin th 1 °Amin
which was now llghtisi its way gallantly up the street
It would be impoidbl. to sonny any adequate idea
al the desperate conharaater of tbe signal= hers, for
Valstatdat least
eole c'ut
"tcsif.bse hour( wrwin were
anoadve and 1 ty) as both aidsse of the street; the
doom sad wiasre were barricadod and rand-
=lstsad through loop-holee from the Interior,
van the gat roofs of the houses, the sewn
=Ns. thighelliVlK rained • murderous Bre upon the
ootsmo which it could not return, seri under which
Ile WI Muted I. his de•Patob. "Nothing oonld
live.' Glover soca saw that it was impomblis for
Wm to Nadi the 031112111 alive, and, exhausted by
alone exertion, sad weak frost lois of Wont, h•
letup is • heap of stable manure depeeited at
lb• olds si the street, and bon be giddily szoivaisd