A SUBALTERN STORY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 4

A SUBALTERN STORY

Ail unusual motive prompted a singularly bravo deed described by Professor J. H. Morgan, in au address at University College,. Gower Street, London. A' s;oung subaltern, lie said, had a pair of Zeiss binoculars, of which lio was very proud, and lie bored everybody by exhibiting and talking about_ ;them. They were German-made, and since the outbreak of war the kind had been very difficult to obtain. „ The subaltern and others iu the trenches were afterwards driven back by the Germans and went into the support trenches. Suddenly tno subaltern uttered an exclamation and rail back to the trench they had loft, which was then in the possession of tho enemy. ' A sergeant who followed him returned shortly afterwards to the commanding officer and said, "He's captured tho trench, sir." Tho commanding officer obtained some support and went to'the trench, where ho .found-tho subaltern with a revolver in each hand holding a, wliolo row of Germans who had lain down their rifles and were holding up their hands. Tho commanding officer afterwards said to the subaltern: "You will probably get the V.O. for that, but it was a. very foolish tiling to do to try to recapture a trench single-handed." "But," replied the subaltern, "I went back for my binoculars, sir." ;