FEARFUL HEAT IN ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7763, 17 October 1893, Page 4

FEARFUL HEAT IN ENGLAND.

All extraordinary 'story : '.is tod in a letter received from one of the rank and file of a LW«te6or te^m'eiit 1 ebgagea in the recent op«rattorii! fi at J Alde f rshof;. It shows the suffer ings which the men gnderwjeat through the excessive heat. , Thei letter,' which' is dated the 10th August, says :—" Yesterday we had to march eight mfleß at four in the morning, and took op«a prtiition as' »n attacking force at a village called Normandy; ' There wire 80,000 Volunteers, engaged, and as man; regdMi.^^ferddss<Hd: wjfc 3 fte:itf Liverpool ana oth JLiyerpooi, who simply went to pieces, especial y the Ist. The day | waß learlailyhLt— over ipOdegrtea— and the men wire fajllng, all round from ; exhaqstion and umSmjt^^fim] we- fe finished we had^ittiwrtlrii^.roiles, tiome r arfd the dust waßjnni&i } yotf would riot have kpown the regim<na(sii j oil had seen them. The men were fa'len put at* one place to. get water. They got,,a ; iiMV*t*»i dirty ; water oufedf,^ shallow well,' and they fori^ht' for it like "Wild beast*. Btfore we got home 23 men, bad gone down, fallen by the roadside, and we had to feare ifie'nV, as we roold hardly walk, ourseltee;: Oner IHtle 1 chap and a sergeant fell on their facej within 100 yards f camp. We have onlytwo merron ihe sick list to-day; one is in the Alcfeishot Hospital with suna#roke, and the other is blind. The Ist Liverpool fell down, by rank's coming home, |nd out of 410 mea gal; i; 6 aa4 two o^?«ri

came home together. They pioked up five dead men in the EcxHilla this morningthree regulars and two Volunteers— and I b«ttr : one colonel of a regular regiment is ratink mad with sunstroke. This (Thursday) morolng I have just been through the lineß of the ldt, and they arein afiullen; diacontenfed state, -'almost mutiny, cursing tHeir officers, and saying they had a forced march all the Way home yesterday, and that that accounts for their state when they came in,