Hot Weather Expeditions in Afghanistan

in England. The course thus adopted cut short the rather animated discussions of the Home papers on the subject, and for the present the question as to the best means, direct and indirect, of protecting the soldier from the effects of unavoidable exposure to heat is left in the stage of theory. Under these circumstances Indian experiences might reasonably be expected to afford a clue to the precautious necessary when large bodies of troops are massed together ou hot days at home. The conditions of active warfare iu this country or beyond its frontiers, especially when operations have been carried out in the hot weather, have often necessitated jong and rapid marches on the part of troops engaged in temperatures very much above that to which the Aldershot Divisiou was subjected on the occasion iu question. At such times the soldier is constantly under the eye of his officer ; his movements are more limited, and intoxicants