Perhaps Mr. George Trevelyan will ask the Secretary at War
the following questions :—Is it true that the sham-fight at Chob- ham was suddenly ordered, to provide an entertainment for visitors of distinction, and for no other reason whatever? Is it true that the plans of the Generals carrying out the Autumn Manceuvres were seriously deranged and impeded thereby? And finally, is it true that, as stated in the Evening Standard' of Friday, "several fatal cases of sunstroke occurred among the troops engaged in the sham-fight at Chobham?" which might just as well have been held before thd sun had gained his full power. Tories are always talking about the difficulty of ob- taining recruits, but surely a spectacle of this kind, in which soldiers in heavy equipments are compelled to exert themselves like athletes, under a nearly tropical sun, merely to be looked at, is not one calculated to make the Service additionally attractive. England is not India, that deaths from sunstroke should be counted among unavoidable casualties.
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