21 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 19

Lord Kitchener has had a narrow escape. On the 15th

inst. he was riding home to Simla, when in one of the small tunnels on the road a coolie suddenly started up. Lord Kitchener's horse, frightened, swerved violently against a beam, and crushed his rider's leg, breaking both banes above the ankle. The coolie fled in alarm, all did his comrades, fearing to be held responsible for the accident, and Lord Kitchener remained nearly an hour in that sharp cold unattended. He was at last carried home by some rick- shaw men, and the bones were set. Fortunately the fracture is a clean one, and the sufferer, who is rapidly recovering, will probably feel no permanent consequences from the accident, which has, however, for the time terminated his tours of inspection.