HALT! WHO GOES THERE?

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 6

HALT! WHO GOES THERE?

'I CAMP SENTRY USES HIS BAYONET. ' Mγ 'relcjrnph !'r'-«- \tvi,rtnijnli. !> Auckland, J'.ireh 2S. A Ecnsnlionul sfl'i'.ir in rnoi't.d to have t iakrn place at the Irrritorial ciinip of thn 3ril Kepinu'iit at l'ap.itoetoo on Friday nij{ht. It was supposed to be a slerpin*? t camp, since light* had long Ixen oul. ! Thrcß privates,* however, bad inanafred to . make j-;cod Uibir way throiiji'i Ilio li|«'S, iuid eanied out: their intvntion to visit n i lU'ishljouriiiK orchard. < H was not until Mioy essnved to return . in like manlier that' trouble oecurvetl. . Their shadowy forms itcalins Ihnmjfli tho darkness rauj'it the eye cf a sentry. They wero but porsi'tnl in t their endwour lo -ct tlivnjrli llii , 'ii"' s . The sentry had hicli notiens of duty, , however, and ho procoi'tlod to carry out . tlm letter of his instructions. I Tic called on the men to halt, and I when they did not obey he used his liay- [ ! onet on (;ho whole three. One received o. ', . bavonet wound beside, the left eye.; nn--1 j other, a wound below the jaiv. and a I thiiil was run Ihrouch the baeW of (hn rhiih. All had to be taken to hospital, : where they nre waking «ntiyfa«t«.ry-pivi. ' press. Their won mis ii-ro not oottriiored * io be Boriovji.