BOEGARTS, THE VALIANT

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 696, 19 August 1914, Page 6

BOEGARTS, THE VALIANT

There is a touch of that dashing hero fo ficlion, the Brigadier Gerard, about the exploits of Boegarts, the valiant Belgian lancer, of which the cablegrams tell us. The single handed salließ of this picturesque horseman, whirling down upon the foe slaying and making captive whom he will, and returning unhurt to his comrades, have a flavour of the brave days of chivalry, when the "painful warrior famoused for h*f>ht" performed marvellous feats of daring and routed his adversaries wholesale. Boegarts' desperate valour has itn parallel, too, in the annals of old New Zealand. The Maoris have their tales famous npearsmen who dashed inlo the midst of their opponents, killing right and left, and bearing back their prisoners. There was one Waikato athletic hero who was accustomed to run foe after foe through and hurl their bodies over his head as he charged, and them was another tattooed valiant who invariably returned from the mrlee with a transfixed foe on his ehoudor, hie contribution to the tribe's commissariat. In the happy days of peace that just now seem so far off, we may expect to see the Belgian lancer's amazing performances turned to profitable account by the enterprising kincmatograph man.