Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-08-19 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ALMOST INCREDIBLE STORY FROM  ALDERSHOT.  An extraordinary story (says the Standard) is old in a letter received from one of the rank and Me of a Liverpol regiment engaged in the recent operations at Aldershot. It shews the sufferings which the men underwent through the excessive heat. The letter, which is dated the 10th inst., says: "Yesterday we had a tremendous fight on the F,,x Hills. We had to march eight miles at four in the morning, and took up a position as an attacking force at a village called Normandy. There were 20,000 Volunteers engaged an as many Regulars. I counted 14 regiments of Infantry near us, including the London Artists' and London Scottish. We were brigaded with the Ist Liverpool and 6th Liverpool, who simply went to pieces, especially the Ist. The day was fearfully hot—over 100 degrees—and the men were falling all round from exhaustion and sunstroke. When we had finished we had to march six miles home, and the dust was awful; you would not have known the regiments if you had seen thin. The men got a bucket of dirty water out of a shallow well, and they fought for it like wild beasts. Before we got home 23 men had gone down, fallen by tho road side, and we had to leave them, as we could hardly walk ourselves. One little chap and a sergeant fell on their faces, within 100 yards of camp. We have only two men on the sick list to-day; one is in Aldershot Eldspital with smistroke, and the other is blind. The Ist Liverpool fell down by ranks coining home, and out of 410 men only 116 and two officers came home together. fhey picked up five dead men in the Fox Hills this morning, three Regulars and two Volunteers, and I hear one Colonel of a Regular regiment is raving mad with sunstroke. We have been out defending the canal at 6 this ‘Thursday) morning, but got back ta camp about 2 o'clock, and have got this alrernoon off to rest for to-morrow, which is going to be Wednesday over again, but on a different plan of operations. I have just been through the lines ot the Ist, and they are in a sullen, discontented state—almost mutiny—cursing their officers, and saying they had a forced march all the way home yesteriay, and that that accounts for their state when they came in."  Frederick Cook, the youth sentenced to death for murdering his younger brother with a hatchet, at Otley, has been reprieved. The death is announced from Paris of Sur Adrien, who for over 60 years was the hifirmarian of the Lyci.e Louis le (irand, where she was the sick nurse of three generations of French boyhood. Sistvr Adrien, who was the last surviving Jansenist nun in Paris, was an obstinate admirer of Arnauld, Pascal, Mere Angelique, and the other members of the community of Port Royal. When the nuns were sent away from the public institutions of Paris, M. Jules Simon and hundreds of tomer btutletats pleaded successfully that &tut Airien might remain unmolested.  An attempt to murder M. Lockroy, a Fariaiaa publisher, was made on Sunday by the politiral poet, Moore. The bullet grazed Lockroy's chest, and Moore was at once disarmed. Moore says he was exasperated because M. Lockroy had refused to 'publish his nr'snis.