Assault at Arms

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 August 1915, Page 2

Assault at Arms

me -New Zealand rairiutic bouety,

iu conjunction with uie \\ ellingtuu

military aiiUioiiuos, is arranging to Jioid a yrand and a realistic and spectacular sham battle at -Newtown J/ark, Wellington, afternoon and ovoniutf, on /Saturday, the 4th September, in aid ol tne Wounded iSoluieio' inind. Hie Society has uoen extremely lortunato in securing the services, as organiser, oi Uiptain Leopold JlcLaglen, jiu-jitsu champion of the 'world, and the inventor of tho present system of bayonet nghting.

Captain McLagleu lias just returned from the South Inland, wJiere he iuccLvssiully organised sunnar displays at Dunedin, invercargill and (Jhristcflurch and he anticipates, in view of the <;orUia' co-operation he is receiving from tho military olliciaLs here, that the Wellington display will even eclipse tho three hue performances given in the tSouth Island. One of the star attractions will be the great realistic sham battle, in which a very large number of cadets and nurses will tako part In addition to this item there will be a massed jiu-jitsu display by a large body of the Wellington police force, massed bayonet lighting, mounted and dismounted j several exciting equestrian events in which a number ot the country residents will participate and a unique test of physical endurance by Captain AlcLaglon .who will withstand tho combined pulling power of two draught horses.

Ar! a concluding event, Captain -Me-. Laglen will endeavour to lower his previous world's record with the broadsword by cutting eight sheep in half while going at full gallop on horseback. The program, with several alterations, will be repeated in the evening, when the park will bo brilliantly illuminated and the sham fight will take the form of a night attack bringing in the use oi : the searchlight. The total proceeds are to be devoted to the Wounded .Soldiers' Fund which the Society consider, in view of the recent heavy casualty lists, must be considerably augmented.