§ SIR ARTHUR HAYTERasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he can inform the House if the 10th Hussars received the order to make forced marches on their return to India while suffering from cholera; and, if so, from whom the order proceeded, and what was the countervailing reason for increasing the pace at the risk of the health of the men?
§ MR. E. STANHOPEI cannot yet say whether the 10th Hussars received 969 the order to make forced marches on their return to India. If such an order was issued, it was, probably, not in spite of, but because of, cholera, it being of the first importance, and at almost any other risk, to remove cholera-stricken troops from the infected district.