A RECIPIENT'S JUBILEE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 13000, 31 December 1907, Page 7

A RECIPIENT'S JUBILEE.

AX OUTBURST OF LOYALTY.

BOMBAY, December 29.

At tdie Jubilee colebratione in connection with Hodson's Horse, at Lahore, Colonel Cowper led the march past, and saluted the native retired veterans. This evoked a spontaneous demonstration of loyalty on the part of native soldiers a.nd native officers, who cheered and solemnly declared that they did not participate in tho recent unrest, and abominated all sedition-mongers. Hodson's Horse was Raised by Major William Hodson, in tho crisis of tho Mutiny. Major Hodson had done good work on tho turbulent frontier as Oomma.ndia.nt of tihe Guides, but had been deprived of his command because of irregularities in tbo regimental accounte and his treatment of troops and natives under his control. With his irregular horse Hodson took part in the siege of Delhi and the operations at Lucknow, and was killed et the latter place during the assault on \ the palace. It was he to whom the King surrendered at Delhi, and he who shot with his own hand the King's three sons after capture. For this act he has been greatly blamed. There has been, much controversy about his character. Ho was certainly a splendid irregular soldier, and Mr Herbert Paul probably exaggerates when he says that ho was e& free from scruple as from fear.