A SURGEON'S HEROISM. 475 Sunday morning (August 1st) the brigadier moved out with 1,000 infantry, the Guides' Cavalry and Lancers and two guns, to try to relieve Chakdara. But the enemy were so strong that he withdrewto the camp again after thecavalry hadmade onecharge without much result, the enemy taking refuge in the broken ground. The day passed anxiously, for from Chakdara the heliostat flashed abrief despairing message, "Help us/" In reply the Malakand station flashed back, " Expect us to-morrow morning. Is the bridge standings" But no answer came. Men began to fear for the worst, and it was resolvedthat on the Monday,at any cost and risk,Malakand wouldholdout a helping hand to Chakdara.

An heroic incident in the defence of the Malakand may be mentioned here. During one of the night attacks a British officer was woundedby a bullet whichcut anartery,andhe wasrapidly bleeding to death, whenLieutenant-Surgeon V. Hugo came to the rescue. He struck a light and saw what the wound was. Thelight wasput out by a volley,which happily hurt neither of the men. Then,no other means of saving life being possible, Hugo sat by his comradein the dark,under a heavyfire,for three long hours, compressing th; artery, "holding a man'slife between finger and thumb." By this devoted heroismthe life was saved. Tne brave surgeon's ownarm wasparalysed with cramp for hours after this long-continuedstrain was over NC.O.'S OF THE FJRST SIKH INFANTRY