OVERCOMING THE AGE BAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 227, 13 June 1918, Page 4

OVERCOMING THE AGE BAR

FORMER WELLINGTON RESIDENT JOINS CANADIAN FORCES.

Tlie.ro is a new star iu the service, that of the Union League Club, says a San Francisco paper, it represents the patriotism and determination of a man who would not permit his age to balk •his desires to take a hnnd in crushing the Kaiser. John Newton Storry, a civil engineer, for years a resident member of the club, quietly closed up his business affairs after heaving Harry Lauder's stirring call to arms. Ho kept his intention a secret from his closest associates. Storry made the rounds of every recruiting office in San Francisco, seeking to enlist as a private in any organisation that promised immediate service at the front, but failed Kecauso ho was two years over the age limit. Storry persisted. Through the British Consulate he succeeded in enlisting as a private in a field company of the Canadian Engineers Not until then did ho tell his fellow club members. He departed in duo course and is now in Vancouver, B.C. On the steamer Storry and a companion wero attacked by three LW.W. agitators, who had sought to dissuade them from joining their regiments. They subdued the trio and turned them over to a United States marshal.

Tho Mr. Sloyry referred to in the above paragraph was a resident of Wellington twenty years ago, and vas employed at the Government Printing Office. He left New Zealand for the Klondykc at tho timo of tho gold rush there, and for some years he was in business in Dawson City, and afterwards in Vancouver, 8.C., and San Francisco. Mr. E. Tamblyn, of Dunedin, a brother-in-law of Mr. Storry's, received a letter from the latter by tho last mail, in which tho writer stated that he was leaving for England immediately with his company, although he had been only a few weeks in camp.