5 SEPTEMBER 1903, Page 18

MINDEN DRUMS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcrwron."] Sin,—There is a story in Kinglake, if I remember rightly, that since the battle there was a secret tradition in one of the regiments of "the Minden yell.". It had, however. always been prohibited by the authorities till the battle of Inkerman, when the Colonel, finding the regiment about to be over- whelmed by a superior Russian force, called for it, on which the regiment charged with such fury that they broke the enemy. I um sorry that I cannot verify this owing to my not having a copy of Kinglake.—I am, Sir, tte.,