A CHARMED LIFE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16141, 20 February 1918, Page 3

A CHARMED LIFE.

* EXTRAORDINARY CAREEJI OF LIEUT.-COLONEL MAXAVELL. j News lias been received at Batli of i the death of Lieut.-Colonel John Maxwell, M.C., alter uu adventurous career. Ho enlisted as . a private in the Somersetshire Light Infantry on ihe first day of the war, and received a commission in a few weeks. By t'-te end of November be -was chief signals officer. "When the Germans made their hrst flame attack at llooge he was promoted captain for his conduct in the j counter-attack. Ho was for nearly j " J'oar in the Ypres salient, and was *;azetted major during; the Soinmp camj'paign. j At JJelville AYood he fought for seven j days and seven nights without a break i and was so fagged that he slept for 1 five hours leaning against the trench j parapet. r J he colonel of Engineers ; wrote to him after that occasion that only his skill and enterprise enabled thfi to fortify Orchard Trench and AVood Lane. He seemed to bear a charmed life, although' he was struck' by shell splinters twelve tim.es. Once he met cri reconnaissance five Germans a few feet away from him. He emptied lis revolver into them and got away. Lieut.-Colonel 3Taxwell had been through the whole of the recent offensive in Flanders. UNCOMFORTABLE AFTER MEALS? Your food is not digesting. Look at your tongue; you wiii find it coaled in the mornins- The bowels arc generally irregular, you have lost a lot cf your o!d enegry, anW feel tired and languid. Your -work is an effort; you hive pains between the shoulders occasionally, and in the stomach, and get troubled with flatulence. Come and "ASK LCASBY ABOUT IT." Over 40 years' successful eiperience in prescribing is at tout service. Hundreds can tell you the good Loasby ha 3 done them. Advice and Medicine: Children 2e. adults 2s 6d. Country patients treated by letter. Send full details of your troubles; enclose | bs Gd. and we eend you a double-sized bottle of medicine post free. A. If. LOASBY. i (With AV. F. MfiArtbur). I T'uc Ouiy .Freecjibing ('iieitust, 4 *>73 Colombo street, Cliriatchuicb.