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The Fatal March iu India.

(From the Times of India of the 13th of May.)
We have received the following particulars in
reference to the outbreak of cholera in the detach-
ment of Artillery leaving Mhow

" It appears that the presence of cholera along the
route to Nargaum was represented to the authori-
ties at head-quarters by the telegraph. This re-
moves the blame from the Mhow staff. The epidemic
was both sudden and severe, and, as far as we can
learn, no preparations had been made to meet it.
Even if the march was necessary, it would surely
have been advisable to have a suitable medical staff
and a store of medicines. We are informed that
such was not the case. Assistance and medicines
were applied for after the outbreak of the disease.
" Again, being within a short distance of the
Nurbudda river, efforts should have been made to
cross it, experience having frequently shown good
results from such a proceeding. The order to return
through the infected districts is reported as most
unwise, and only another instance of fatal error.
One poor man, on passing the grave of his wife,
buried so recently, became insane with grief, and
the depression on the whole detachment was much
increased.

" We hear the most favourable accounts of the
praiseworthy and noble behaviour of the- young
officer in command of the party. It is said his
conduct and energetic work were everywhere re-
marked, and that great benefit was derived from his
presence and continual association with the men.
We hear with pleasure that his name is to be brought
before the authorities, and we feel sure that moral
courage and fortitude in such a time, and when
alone and unaided, must be entitled to some special
notice. Without the excitement of battle and the
applauding presence of friends to go about among
the dead and dying is a true piece of bravery.
"At one time it was hardly expected to have
saved the detachment at all. Seven were buried in
one grave, and it was hard to say who was to go
next. Amid the worst the sergeant-major worked
vigorously, and exhaustion consequent on such
extreme labour made him fall an easy victim. He
was highly respected, and considered a first-rate
officer."

(Prom the India Times' Correspondent.)

" The detachment arrived at Bulwara, three
marches from Mhow, on the 15th ult., and the men
were then apparently in excellent health and spirits.
On that day two cases occurred, one of which proved
fatal after a few hours. , The next morning the
detachment marched to Burwai ; one death took
place and another man was attacked on the road.
The heat in the tents having been found excessive
the previous day, the men were placed in the large
buildings of the Burwai ironworks, a detached
building being set apart for the hospital, two or
three proved fatal, and some 25 more were treated
for diarrhcea. During the night admissions and
deaths were numerous. Next morning the men
were moved into tents under a tope of trees about
two miles off, only the sick being kept in the
buildings. On this day three men, one child, and
two camp followers died. The same evening the
women and children were started off to Sinawud, a
village about four miles south of the Nurbudda,
and the detachment followed during the night,
arriving at daybreak on the 18th. Here it was
joined by a second medical officer and apothecary,
sent from Mhow. The attacks at this places were
more numerous than ever ; seven men and three
children died ; and, with few exceptions, the whole
detachment suffered from diarrhoea. Discretionary
powers having been given by the general command-
ing at Mhow, it was determined to return to the top
of the ghauts, and from the time of the promulga-
tion of this order the spirits of all ranks rose.
Arrangements were at once made for procuring
carts for all the men, but, owing to the apathy and
indifference of Holkar's officials at Sinawud, the
men were obliged to go on foot back to Burwai (in
British territory), at which place a sufficient num-
bstr of covered carts were immediately forthcoming.
In these the men were carried back to the foot of
the ghauts, where they rested during the heat of the
day on the 19th, very few being admitted into
hospital. The return march was resumed
in the same evening, and the next morning the
detachment arrived at Hursora, a village about
three miles from Mhow, at which place the Mhow
authorities had made every arrangement for their
reception, fresh tents having been pitched, and
everything necessary supplied. Four died during
this last march, but I believe no deaths have since
occurred. The man you mention as having become
insane on passing the grave of his wife died of sun-
stroke. The total number of deaths for which
somebody' is responsible is 21 men, one woman,
and four children, out of some 120 souls.
" There is every reason to believe that the Mhow
authorities are blameless of this deplorable and
wanton sacrifice of life, and we must look to the
cool and comfortable quarters of Mahableswur
(where cholera is unknown and heat unfelt) for the
real authors of this horrible tragedy. I trust that
this matter will not be dropped, or allowed to be
hushed up, but that a searching inquiry will hold
up to the public gaze the man or men who are so
culpably neglectful of the lives of British soldiers.
" May 1, 1865."