PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15989, 25 August 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major Sleeman and t'no Hon. I>. Buddo, M.P., arrived from Wellington by yesterday's ferry steamer. _ . Mr John Hopkins arrived in Chnstrchurch vesterday to arrange for the early appearance of "The New Dandies at the Theatre Royal. Surgeon-General Henderson and Captain Johnson came down by yesterday s steamer from Wolliugisn, and went on hv tlio express to Dunedin, whore thev are to examine the Officers' Training Corps of Otago University. The High Commissioner has cabled to the Prime Minister the following particulars of the circumstances under which Lieut. Eric Reeves, formerly of the Public Trust Office. Wellington, I eamwl "the Cross: ConI snicuoiis gallantrv and devotion to duty. IHe led his platoon to its objective. Takincr command nf - another "which had lost its offic r " s ™- rc n Hured its objective "Re - t easily crost remained ,- n of the shell hole splendid them -were knocked out i_ *] ie eldest [ am afraid they hardly jus't-^]_k no ,-- :ost. _ \ ' "Tlio infantry and artillery won the ight, and nothing else had much to do ~ith it. DIFFICULTIES OF COMMANDERS. "These battles are a great strain on me, as once the infantry gain their inal objective and begin to consolidate, he Hun shells them severely, with the "esult that all our communications get ■ut t and our forward observation officers who go up with the. infantry caniot communicate with us. ou can magine one controlling some 200 guns rom a central place. As soon as the nfantry captured Messines and got befond it, we couldn't see them. The 3un counter-attacks, but if ike telo-