ZION MULE CORPS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 6

ZION MULE CORPS

JEWS FROM JERUSALEM IN DISPATCHES. Tho names of 768 officers and men of the naval and military forces at tlio Dardanelles are given as "deserving special mention" in a dispatch from General Sir lan. Hamilton published in tho "London Gazette." The list includes the name of Private Nissel Rosenberg, a member of the Zion Mule Corps, of -which Sir lan Hamilton wrote to a correspondent:— "It may interest you to know that I have 'here fighting under my orders a purely Jewish unit. As far as I know this is tho first time in the Christian era such a tiling' has happened. The men who compose it were cruelly driven out of Jerusalem by the Turks, and arrived in Egypt with their families absolutely destitute and starving. ' 'A complete transport corps was there raised from them for voluntary service with mo against the Turks, whom they naturally detest. These troops ivere officially described as the 'Zion Mule Corps,' and the officers and rank and file nave shown great courage in taking water and supplies up to the fighting line under heavy fire." A visitor from the North Island tells an unusual tale of boiled bullock and par-boiled dog, says a Cbristchurch paper. Up in the hot springs area a leaping waterfall of boiling water was pointed out. Into this bubbling swirl of frothy steam a- team of bullocks Were inadvertently driven one night. Next day the neighbourhood was wrapped in a.distinct odour of boiled beef. Noting t-he : attractiveness of the odour, the dpgs obeyed the call of unknown possibilities.- Natives are never short of dogs. As eacli dog arrived at the source of tho compelling odour he leapt on to the floating carcasses of boiled bullock, and started. Tlie dogs arrived singly, as a rule, but there seemed to be no end to the rule. Eventually ono dog acted the part of the straw to the camel's back. As ho leaped on, the floating carcasses swayed, and temporarily sank in the boiling fluid. The dogs were involuntarily submerged. Then the odour of scalded beef indicate ed a change of ingredient. Dr. Ayerill, of Auckland, travelled recently via tho Wanganui River, and he is generous in his praise of tho scenery. "We hear scenic-places praised so much that one is inclined to expect disappointment," said the Bishop, "but I was not disappointed with the trip from Pipiriki to tlie Houseboat. I was told a lot about tlie German llhine before I visited it, but 1 was not disappointed with the Wanganui. I have seen u good deal of New Zealand sceii?ry, but T must say New Zealand Ixl-1 a drcitt;d asset in tlio Wanganui .Hiver,"—Advt,