A Defective Commis.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 4 January 1883, Page 2

A Defective Commis.

SARIATJ It is not a satisfactory thing to, know (says the Army and Nary Gazette) taut the deaths of many of the officers and men who have succumbed to wounds received m action m Egypt have beau due to one cause— starvation. " In; many instances," writes a medical officer, "I know that the unfortunate fellows were left m the moat helpless state, I endeavored by every means iv my power to obtain nourishment for them, but none had been provided— at the front. The system became weakened ; blood-poisoning set m; and the poor fellows' lives have been sacrificed at the shrine of the god, < Mismanagement.' If ever a Minister had reason to feel thoroughly ashamed of his administration, that man is the Right Honorable Hugh ObilderSj Score-, tary of. State for War. The tales I could tell you after a few weeks' ex* periences m Egypt would make the blood of the British taxpayer boil." The Army and Navy Gazette adds :— "We have it on the authority of a cavalry officer now at Cairo, that of the horses lost by the British cavalry during the campaign, nearly all fell victims to starvation, or exhaustion resulting ' therefrom."