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hundred desperate struggles against over- whelming odds is almost forgotten Barker, at all events, will not let his SIXTY YEARS AGO,

beloved 78th be forgotten, nor yet the 5th Fusiliers, the 4th, 84th, 99th ▼ the ever The interesting review we print below loyal and gallant Sikhs, the ofher

regiments which, fought, beside them *-* | is taken from the Times Literary SuppleWhen the line of infantry had been ment. The Subaltern" was the late pretty well pounded by the enemy's Geral Sir George Digby Barker (Lady cannon, the 78th were ordered to advance and charge the batteries at the point of May's father), who was in Hongkong the bayonet on we went with deafening from 1500 to 1805 as General Officer Com-cheers, and in a few minutes the gans were manding to Troops. The book is ours on wo went past the batteries and fired into the retreating fos until we were chtainable through Messrs. Kelly halted for a few seconds to form again Welsh

compactly for another chargy. General LETTERS FROM PERSIA AND INDIA, 1857-1959, called out, Woll done, 78th you shall

up. By the late GENERAL SIR GEORGE be my own regiment in future; another DIGBY BARKER Edited by Lany change like that and we shall win the BARKER (B1, 75. ud net.)

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THE VOLUNTEER RESERVES.

ORDERS BY MAJOR WÄKEMAN, 0.0.HE.V,B.

Hongkong, Mar 24th,

MAIN AND PRAK Guarns. The main guard of 2 Officers and 100 rank and he and the Pook guard of 1 Officer and rank and file will relieve the HK.VC. @T 7. alm. on Saturday, March 27th. The QM Sergeant and Orderly Bergeant will attend at Kennedy Road, at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday, the 4th for the purpose of taking over the premises furniture and stores.

The senior N.C.0. with the Peak guard. will arrange to tako over the rooms furniture and storca at Mount Austin

at a convenient time during Saturday, the 27th inst

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Guard will be provided as unler.

·AT - HEADQUARTEUS (GARDEN, ROAD), 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. 1 N.0.0, and 3 ren,

pm to 10.15 pm. LN.C.0, and men. 10.15 p.m. to 7am. 1N.C.0, înd 12 men,

10.10 p.m. to 7.m. 1 N.C.0, and 3 mon Food will be provided for the guards at Headquarters

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All men detailed for duty must attend unless they provide, a substitine who must report his presence to the U.Cs. DECALS MAN GUARD-The whole of Co.

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day. Upen this ws weat through pools These letters written « from the front," and mad, cheering and screaching, and by a young soldier nearly sixty years ago, the next battery was ours, but this was make as feel more acutely the deprivation almost too much for human exertion The which a rigid censorship is inflicting sun was now at its hottest, and rushing upon the whole British Empire. Lieuten on like madmen, with the weight of arms ant Barker's letters and a clarion pran, and ammunition, every one was complete. of the great deeds of the famous rathy done up. At last we were halted. Regiment of Foot, the original Old After half-an-hour's refreshing rest (if Ross-shire Buffs, now the second batta- rest can be called refreshing when the lion of the Seaforth Highlanders. He ground on all sides is being ploughed up wrote hot-foot, between fieroo engage with shot) we again advanced to the right menis, when he was almost tired out, but flank, which was threatened by the enemy, yet not too tired to remember his mother and after driving them out of amother at home anxiously waiting for the letters, village, we all lay down on the ground, which her failing sight painfully appre round shot and grape came thick around hended. They have the vividness of us from one side, end rifle shots from immediacy, and let us into the very life another. After allowing them to exhaast and spirit of the battle, yet without effort their ammunition while we rested, wo or rhetoric or any straining of the cary again advanced and drove them off the style which might have been writtin held. By this time we had followed them to day Early Victorian as he is we scelto Cawnport, which fell to our hands. him and his brother officers in old phots and darkness covered the field of action " grapha assiduously encouraging thes Havelock after this addressed the men the men luxurious whiskers which were the pride and said of the Great Exhibition-there is no tang "I have been forty years it the Service; of the Albert Memorial about young I have been engaged in action about seven Barker True, ho confcrees unashamed to and twenty times, bub during the whole some characteristic weaknesses of the of my career I have never seen any time the love of home and people" regiment behave better, nay more, I have und the simple soldier's faith in Divine never seen ono behave so well, as the 7500 protection and the guidance of Highlanders this day. I am proud of

Merciful Hand Victorian sentiment you for which even the enlightened twentieth

Boon after, on their third attempt to century has not yet discovered effectual march up the Lucknow rond modest simple-hearted young fellow the most troublesome redoubt, and think substitutes. In short, he is a brave, My regiment was moved opposite to intensely proud of his regiment, his ing it too much of a joke to vo country, and his Queen, a gallant fighter, slaughtered by dozens, we set up a bowl and race combination an eloquent and charged the redoubt, without any narrator of gallant fights. His frank orders, took it in glorious style, captured charm shines from every page and on the two guns in it, and, turning them... cannot but love the boy............

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With Main guard: Capt. Lamiala ond

Lieut. Evan-Jones.

K "With Prák guard: Lieut. Bonner.

Orderly Officer: Liont, Evansdunen, Orderly Sergt.: £. E. Green.

** Orderly Corp), 1 W. E. Ford. MUSKETLY.Co. Sergt. Major Cook will attend at Headquarters, Kennerly Kond, at 6 am, daily as instructor in bayonet fighting a dog has be Standard Test (Part II) Trained men's

· Courso wül be fred, ut the Kings Park Range commencing punctually at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27th and 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, the 28th March All members who have to complete this course should make a point of utsending, Uniform optional.

Private at his own request,

3. L. CARTES, Capt.,

Adjutant, HK.V.R.

THE HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS. CORPS ORDERS DY LIEUT, COP, A, CHAFHAN, VI

He was but twenty-three when he first came under fire, and he lived to be thousands of their retrating REVERSION. Sargt. J. Jehuston reverte to eighty, but though in later years Sir That is the kind of letter the old folks George Barker achieved many more dis at home love to read. This little book tinctions in varied fields, became a preis full of such good stuff, bat every one, fessor at the Staff College, where he had especially every Highlander, must read entered and passed out bop of the list, it for himself. Barker, now D.AQ.M.G. directed military education at the War on Outram's staff, was probably the first Office commanded in chief in the Far man into the besieged Residency

***** Seeing Sir James Outram making for East and governed a Colony in the West, ho never again saw stricken field and the embrasure, 1 followed close behind these frst years of his career, 1857-1859, luim, and, being on foot and he on horse must have stayed in his memory as the back I managed to get in before him. 1 time of a life which reached its hon believe I have the honour of being the oured close only ten months ago, when first in, though another disputes it. As the pipes of the 78th were heard at Clare I went up the hill inside my hand was

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a wonderful soene, and there It was a was yet another when" we heard the glad The first campaign was but a little on aud soon over; but it is unusually booming near Alum Bagh. When sound of Sir Colin Campbell's heavy gans interesting just now, for it was the war Campball decided to abandon Lucknow with Persia, brought about by the Shah's for the present, and the garrison and anexation of Herat in 1800, and their rescuers secretly withdrew at night. Barker's regiment went up the Shatt Outram told the 78th, in a low tone of Arab to Basrah, just where our troops voice that he had chosen them for the have gone in the past few weeks. Lorour of covering he retirement of all notes may surprise those who have ben we had the post of honour on entering taught that one has but to scratch the to relieve the garrison none were more sand at Bashire to unroof hell fire; for worthy of the post of honour on leaving instead of blazing heat he records (in

February, as might be expected) that it it

Was bitterly cold at night; the hills in Iona day, the day they won their way the distance are all covered with snow. into the Residency, the 78th lost niine There are touches in, the letters which officers and 130 men killed and wounded might have been written to-day, 24. 400 Compared with this our present out of a total muster of little more than What is up? no one knows except the losses shrink to their due proportion. We Government, who are keeping it very have never had to face such tremendous secret and again Daylight this numerical disparity as the 1st Division morning found us still wending our way did when it marched to relieve Lucknow. at the pace of about one mile por hour

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water. They went up to Mohammarað has given Lady Barker a great opper- in the Precursor (whose name is still tunity, of which she has well availed somewhat dingily

herself, to let the nation know how it commemorated at Cowes), but their one twelve-pounder soldiers fought in the past, so that they did little harm" to the enemy on the may realize that they are still men of the

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expedition in April up the Karun, to Ahwaz, 75 miles from their supports, ia

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which three hundred picked men of the TOTAL COST OF THE PANAMA 78th and 64th, joined by a hundred sailors, put to fight an army of 7,000 or 8,000, 2,000 of which were cavalry," by this simple device:

The Panama, Canal, according to **** Captain Hunt of our regiment, who Governor Goethals annual report, has so commanded the troops, now landed his far cost $353,559,049, or nearly $10,000,000 little band of 300, formed them into less than the total appropriation for the three divisions, making them spread over work, a fact which alone, aside from the as much space as possible with the great work compacted, will always stand intention of deluding the enemy into this as a monument to the US Army idea that we were a brigade of thres Engineer Corps eficienty to accomplish regiments instead of a small detachment ecnomically as well as successfully, of three companies, and, poor dear little diucult engineering problems, The April fools, they believed it, as the restul report also shows that the total amount will show. Our three little columns, with of material removed in the dry from the the height of impudence, now advanced Culebra cut, from the begining of covered by a row of skirmishers-the American operations to June 15th, 1014, fatter commanded by your humble servant aggregated 110,281,882 cubic yards, at a in proprié persOTUL At the Ba division cut of £0.7006 per cubic yard; time two gunboats advanced" up

the river and opened fire upon of this emount 25,006,100 cubic yards were the enemy on the opposite han removed because of slides, or 22.86 per As wo approached the village we found cent. The giant lacks and dams of the the garrison had made a bolt of it add. Catal have also successfully withstood crossing the river, had joined the main th's year the most violent med most arany, who wers now to be seen in full numerous earthquake shocks that have retreat, their columns covering the cecurred since the work was begun, ground for miles and miles."

eighty-aven distinct shocky being record-

This "account of a little-known campaign will be read with special atten tion at the present time, and it is interesting to notice the emphasis laid onthe strong redoubts and fortifing tions constructed at Basrah by

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Bus In dealing with the financial proposal sian engineers. Our present ally was of the Allies in the House of Conimona

MUSKETRY (STANDARD TEST). Musketry will be carried out na King's Park Range as follows:- Saturday, 27th inst. at 2.00 p.m.:

Trained men of all units. Sunday, 28th inst at 980 am:

Trained men of all units Members must attend punc-ually ut the times stated above. Any men arriving late will not be alowed to will not NOTE

Only members who has fred Part I. can fire the Standard Test??. Officer on duty in the Butts, Saturday,

27th inst. Lient, Wright. Officer on duty in the Butts, Sunday,

28th inst. Llout. Roes. Officer in charge of the tiring point, Saturday, 27th inst. Capt. Wood-

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The 1st Portuguse Company will yararle but the Central Police Station at 5.10 p.m.

sharp to-day.

The let British Company will parade with of course, then our recent en my in last month, Mr. Lloyd Georgs observed arms at the same time and place on Friday, Europe, and our lasting anxiety in Asia that the smaller Allica had to be taken the 26th instant. Peace was made with Persia before the into consideration Belgium, almost The 1st Chinese Company will parado on 78th could distinguish itself further, but entirely in the hands of the enemy, a Saturday at 8 pm. the Regiment was to serve under the Civil Covernment and an Army to Burns general, Outram, in much more maintain, with no revenue, “We have perilous days: The Indian Mutiny had seen that she does not suffer unul the broken out before the Regiment got back period of restoration comes-and of com- to Bombay, and the 78th were sent round pensation." (Loud cheera)** Serbia,

FC JENEIN,

A. S. P. (Reserve).

to Calcutta and took a leading part with the population of Ireland. was The Times prints a letter from a sea The first relief and subsequent defence of maintaining an Army of 300,600 men, and man aboard a battleship which relates how Lucknow. The tale of horror was only fighting the third great war within two seagulls saved the ship. He states that too familiar to a past generation, but by years. She had no resources of wealth when he was on watch he noticed seagulls many readers to-day the wonderful work and no exports now with which to circling round a spot which proved to be of our handful of British troops in a purchase munitions of war

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