APPENDIX

{Extract from TiMES' leading Articles of
October 2, 1907)

THERE are some great struggles in history, some
awful experiences, which seem to purify a man's
whole being, to clear away the meannesses and leave only
the things that really matter in his character. Such a
struggle was the Indian Mutiny, and those of us who have
known and spoken with men who were in India at the
time feel that we have spoken with men indeed, and that
our burden of maintaining the British tradition which
they have handed down is a heavy one.

But the number even of those who have met such
men is diminishing, and it is important for many reasons
that we should not lightly forget the causes of the
Mutiny, its history, and the methods by which it was
suppressed. We are therefore glad to be able to give
our readers an account of the Mutiny by one of those
who took a glorious part in that great struggle; this
account, the first instalment of which we give to-day,
will be completed in eighteen issues of the Times, Its
author. Sir Evelyn Wood, like his two distinguished
colleagues in the small band of our Field-Marshals,
Lords Wolseley and Roberts, was not only a combatant
at the Mutiny, but also, like them, as everybody knows,
has proved himself a spirited chronicler of his experiences
on this and other fields.    Sir Evelyn was not in India

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