TOMMY ATKINS AND THE INDIAN SEPOYS. [To THE EDITOP. OF
THS "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The enclosed extract will show you the camaraderie that exists between Tommy Atkins and the Indian sepoys of the present day, and with what interest the latter watch
events in South Africa.—I am, Sir, &c., C. C.
Extract from a letter received from an officer of the 15th Sikhs, now encamped in the Swat Valley.
" The native officers and men of the regiment quite of their own accord have subscribed one day's pay towards the Transvaal War Fund. When we said, Would it not be better to subscribe to the Famine Relief Fund ? ' they replied : `No ; the white soldiers always subscribed for their widows and orphans when there was a show out here, so they would like to do a little in return.' There was a tremendous Futteh '* in the camp when the news of the relief of Ladysmith arrived."
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