CONTRASTING THE AWMIES, 1 correspondent of the " Times in his description of the entry of lied Forces into Peking and subsequent events, gives some most interesting details of the different contingents which participated in that memorable march To return to the Allied Armies. Ina campaign the factors next in importance to those connected with transport and com-re, I suppose, generalship, and the courage, discipline, equipment, and methods of training of the various armies concerned. So far as generalship is concerned the Allies were so uniformly successful that there is no opportunity for criticism, even were I inclined to write on matters which are best left to experts. Some of the Pressmen who accompanied the British army were inclined to comment on the fact that on the march we always brought up the rear. They forgot, however that General Gaselee seems to have so arranged matters that whenever there was fighting to be done we were always well in front, It was the British battery which silenced tsin one or two people spoke vaguely against the courage of the French. T know now that such remarks were both ill-natured and unfounded. I saw the French mariaes under fire, and nothing could exceed their composure and sang fraid.
With regard to discipline and all that the word conveys, I have but one remark to make. If by discipline is meant strict obedience to orders, self-respect and a regard for the traditions of humanity, then the British-Indian army was certainly the best disciplined amongst the Allies, General Gaselee has much to be proud of, but nothing, I am sure, can give him greater satisfaction than the knowledge that in the moment of victory the conduct of his troops was beyond reproach. We tortured no prisoners, we did not shoot down defenceless men and children, we shamed no women.
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