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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 114, 9 January 1919, Page 3

“ A fine soldier and a fine man,” was the manner in which General Allenby was described by an officer who arrived hack in Christchurch from Egypt. Tho officor went on to speak of Gonornl Allonby in highly eulogistic terms, laying particular stress upon tho way in which he fraternised with the men and interested himself in their needs. “He takes ovory risk,” the officer added, “ and when there is something doing he does not direct affairs from behind tho lines. Ho is away with tiie men in tho vory front lino. English officers are' not always idolised by colonial troops, but General Allenby is, and be, in his turn, lias nothing but praiso for the Australian and New Zonland troops.” During tho lunch hour one day last woelc, writes, a correspondent of the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald,’ the peaceful air surrounding tho recruiting stand in Martin place was disturbed by tho raucous voice of a for'oign-look ( ing porson, who mountod the stops, breasted the barrier, waving a blue handkerchief, and shouting: “ Ladies and gontlomen, I stand before you to wave the embloni of liberty, a tvuo representative of tho « One Big Union.’ Wo aro going to —lie got no further. “ Shut up !” shouted a returned soldier. “ Revolution is tho only way,” continued tho speaker of tho square head. 1 Got down ; got back to your own country,” shouted soldiers in tho crowd. One soldier, a well-known figure ou tho recruiting platform, grabbed the Bolshevik by the back of the neck and Beat of tho trousers, ran him across tho platform and down tho stops, to tho delight of the crowd. Tho police subsequently escorted him up Moore street.