THE HOMEWARD MAIL

FROM INDIA, CHINA AND THE EAST

London, England

9 October 1905

(page 1339)

Military Notes.

For one reason and another, remarks the Statesman, India is at the present moment filling a more prominent place than usual in the Home Press. The natural result is that readers in India are supplied with plenty of the little blunders which add to the interest of English newspapers when they treat of matters occurring in this country. A very amusing example is furnished by the Daily Mail, which has been publishing the letters that have appeared in more than one of our Anglo-Indian contemporaries from Mr. Crowley of the ill-fated Kinchenjunga expedition. One of these letters, describing the party's preliminary arrangements, was headed “Bandoblast.” The word was too much for the bright sub-editors of Carmelite Street, who solved the puzzle by dating Mr. Crowley's letter from “Bandoblast,” Darjeeling, July 26.