English Pluck.

Manawatu Herald, 19 July 1892, Page 3

English Pluck.

The Victorian 6roas has been conferred on Captain Aylmer and Lieutenants Boisragori, Manderg »vA Smith .for gallantry in the Cashmere campaign last yeii 1 . So runs ih<? cablegram. Thi« must refer to the three officers mentioned in the last Review of Jteeietos, which however, in May, mentions the new« as having been received last month. It is hardly likely there would be such a long delay as the cablegram nmu Would lead us to suppose. In the before mentioned paper it states :

Last month wo have been thrilled by three stories of heroic adventure on the part of young officers in the field on tha Indian and Burmese frontiers. An English lad in command of a handful of Ghoorkhrs fought his way through a jungle against the vigorous opposition of enemies ten times as numerous, storming stockades, and/ording river after river, and at last winning his way, as by a miracle, to tbe English outpost with his convoy of rum. Another officer, in the oparation on tha hills of Cashmere, first packed his gun-cotton slabs under stones at the foot of the gate of the fort of Nilt, and then, under hail of bullets, went back when the fuse had gone out, relit it and blew up the gate. And a third, Lieutenant MannersSmith and his men, scaled an almost perpendicular cliff 1,200 feet high in order to storm a Nagur stronghold at the summit, and did it under volleys of firearms and a rushing avalauche of rocks lot loose iVom above.