The Finest Soldier.

Manawatu Herald, 10 May 1904, Page 3

The Finest Soldier.

We take off ouu hats to little Johnny Jap—the finest soldier under the sun. Tommy Atkins has held the champion belt for a long time a century or two at least-—and the British fighting man is generally reckoned the top notch in military fighting machines. Bonaparte politely referred to him as a red “ devil,” and made other similarly flattering references to his great persistence in getting in front of the enemy, and refusing to go away, and the Bear at Inkerman discovered that a thin red line of John Bull soldiers was a tougher thing to break than a network of steel hawsers. But Tommy Atkins never stormed the heights of Tugela. It was not for want of trying ; goodness knows he tried often enough, and once he nearly got there, and he left his dead and dying scattered over the slopes of those relentless mountains of Natal in a very wasteful fashion. But Johnny Jap chased the Bear out of the heights of the Yftlu with a contempt for death unequalled since a certain band Oc brave men held the pass at Thermopylae. They bridged the Yalu with their dead, and passed on to victory as undaunted as the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Tommy Atkins has few equals, and if there is one superior it is the soldier of little Japan. He is at present giving an effete world a new example of how to go to war.—Christchurch Truth,

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