SULLIVAN, V.C.
STORY OF HIS EXPLOITS IN Russia. (Rec. October 12, 11,35 p.m.) ■ London, October 11. The Australian Press Association correspondent interviewed Sullivan, V.C., at. the repatriation camp at Winchester. Tho lattsr modestly and unassumingly made light of his exploit, and said: "It was not much to talk .about. I was lucky, because several officers were looking on. We. had been out capturing three villages on tbo Dvina, and were returning through the forest. The 'Bolshies' ambushed us when we were crossing a swamp by narrow nlanks.- They turned machine-guns on us pretty hotly. Some men and also an officer 'fell <>.' the plank into tho th'iok slimy swamp, m which it was impossible to swim or wade. I jumped into the slime up to my shoulders and helped tho officer ana four men to regain the plank. ' Th«t j. all there was to it. J '-~Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 15, 13 October 1919, Page 5
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148SULLIVAN, V.C. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 15, 13 October 1919, Page 5
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