1 JANUARY 1916, Page 11

The Indian Army Corps have left France to serve elsewhere,

and before their departure a special message- of thanks from the King was delivered by the- Prince of Wales. The King said that the confidence he had expressed in their sense of duty, their courage, and their chivalry had been nobly justified. The message ends : " I pray God to bless and guard you and to bring you back, safely, when the final victory is won, each to his own- home—there to be welcomed with honour among his own people." All soldiers fight best under the conditions. to which they are accustomed, and no doubt the wisest distribution of physical energy is to piece the more resisting constitutions of Northerners in the damps and chills of France and Flanders, and to transfer the.Indians to a less rigorous climate.