WAR INCIDENTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 764, 12 March 1879, Page 2

WAR INCIDENTS.

A picturesque touch is given to the capture of Ali Musjid by an incident narrated in one of the special telegrams. As it giew dark the assault on the fort was postponed. While the staff were next morning peering through the early mist preparatory to the renewal of the attack, they saw a solitary horseman advancing towards them. '• It was young Chisholin of the Lancers." who had gone on a reconnaisauce by himself, and found the fort abandoned ! Full of the impetuosity of the English youth he would not wait for orders. Carrying his life in his hand, he had gone to have a look at the fort and the enemy. The story recalls some of the incidents of the Peninsula War. It is not much unlike the exploit of the young officer, who while taking despatches, saw some men working by the aid of a dark lantern, and who, his horse stumbling against a wire, was able to ascertain by following it the despositiohs for the next day's battle, and take back drawings to the commander. And then there is the story of those sailors who losiug themselves o.ie night, nude for one of the enemy's f-rts which had git en the allied forces a deal of troul.lo, and found it evacuated, whereupon they rushed back, secured a flag and next morning astonished the staff by running up the British ensign. It was the same spirit which induced

an Irish soldier at the battle of Inkertnan to say to his comrade) as, peering through the dense fog> he caught sight of a mass of Russian infantry in front of him. "Come along Bill, here's scores of 'em" There will not be much glory to be got out of an Afghan war nowadays, but "Young Ohisholm of the Lancers" promises to connect hia name with it.