HOW THE ENGLISH ARE TREATED IN THE ZULA WAR.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 549, 30 June 1879, Page 3

HOW THE ENGLISH ARE TREATED IN THE ZULA WAR.

A correspondent, writing after the unsuccessful attack on Morosi Mountain, says:— "I now come to the poor wounded. If ever one's heart bled out of pity for any one, it would have bled that night, and more especially tho following morning. The wounded bad to be carried down the mountain in blankets; not a single stretcher provided— not a ' single mattress to lay the poor fellows on. . . Only one tent was pitched in which to place

tbe wounded. There were no more tents in the camp. Men living in damp sod wall tents, with a blanket over the top for a roof, gave up these damp places to put lour of the wounded in. They were laid en sticking sheepskins 88 substitutes for ni'ittresses, and the wonder ia that the treatment did not kill them. Is this the way tbat Christians should be treated? Havo you ever beard of such mismanagement? Ought not these men, no matter who they be, who are responsible for this wanton cruelty to the wounded, to be brought to account for it by the unanimous voice of the country and comrades of the wounded? God pity the poor fellows who fell wounded at the attack on Morosi's Mountain on the Bth April ! And now for what took place the followingdanorning. Outside of the tent (mind the only tent), was erected a sod bank (formed of wet sods fresh dug), about seven feet long by five wide, and about four feet six inches high, over which was thrown a blanket or s« : tbis was the "amputating table." The first to be laid upon it wa9 poor Scott, whose arm was cut off above the shell-wound. Then came poor Martingale, whose leg was cut off below the thigh. After his leg was amputated he was carried into the mud hut, and laid down beside poor Scott. About twenty minutes afterwards, poor Martingale's body was carried out, and laid alongside of poor Pasky's body, who had died from tbe effecU of his wound; and during the afternoon the two bodies were conveyed, by sorrowing comrades to their last restingplace. Anyone witnessing the above melancholy treatment must shudder, and hope it may never be bis lot to be wounded. The wounded who were considered out of imminent danger, were carried eighteen miles to the hospital at Thomas's camp. The poor, muchabused CM.R. were told off to carry the wounded men (5), whilst there are about 2000 Basutos here doing nothing whatever."