Show britzk officers disgraced LONDON nov 30 30 the actual charno charge against captain boileau and captain batcher butcher which led to their names being stricken from rom the army list la is not yet known bat but the conjecture is that they grew oat out of the retreat from Mani pur which is carob probably in fact the sl st jamn me today to day publishes comments upon the sentence imposed in which it I 1 is taken for granted that this is the reason the gazette bays says in part mrs britwoods Brim woods moods narrative givas evidence that the retreat was a disorderly stampede it was not made to stampede aa save her life on the contrary she was left to eave save herself until the fugitives recovered fro from in the panic the retreat from was necessary but a stand might have been made in the bills in the vicinity had this been done the lives of the captives might have been saved at an any r rate a te the disaster would not have le been e n a die disgrace grace but the disaster calls lor for m more e th than the punishment of the two junior officers the gazette concludes its article by condemning the mistakes of the indian government which led to tho the uprising the whole story it says is a miserable mie erable record of blundering and mismanagement |