"TALLY-HO WORSLEY "

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 260, 30 July 1919, Page 6

"TALLY-HO WORSLEY "

A NEW ZEALANDEU IN NORTH RUSSIA. "I left Archangel to meet the men from the trenches and the blockhouses, but I was twenty miles from Bereznik when their barge swung round the bend ol' the river," wrote a correspondent of tho London "Mail" frcm North Russia last month. "Our barge was taking up the Oxford and Bucks reliefs, and was tied up while the men bathed. When the Scots were sighted, cheers were sent across the water. From tho Scots, tired and war-weary, bu,t supremely happy, since their work was done and home was almost in sight, came (he slogan "failyHo.' "This i 9 the cry that carriod them through a hundred battles with the Bolsheviks, and every huntsman at Home, when ho learns of tho triumphs won, will find a deeper thrill of emotion in the call. In November, when the Scots feared that England had forgotten thMi, aculo depression threatened, but Lieutenant frank Worsley, who was with Shockloton's Expedition, came to inspire fresh hope. No propagandist ever reached such heights, lie taught them the slogan and camo to bo known as 'Tally-Ho Worsley.' " Lieutenant Worsley is a New Zenlander, and his cheerful "Tally-Ho" ; s familiar to -ninny- of his friends in this country. It lias put now spirit into the hearts of jaded Antarctic explorers,- as well as the hearts of British soldiers in North Bussin. Lieutenant. Worsley's characteristics arc resource, light ueartodness, endurance, nud pluck. He joined (he Navy immediately his work with Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic Expedition was completed, and ho had won his D.S.O. at sen before he went to North Russia with his old chief.