"BLUFF, SIR."

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 26 October 1917, Page 1

"BLUFF, SIR."

Dr Chilton, the head master of the City of London School, said at the iecent,prizegiving at iJiat" "institution Ahat i,ow old boys -were serving in the force*, arid 182 had .fallen. All -who survived "would be prsented uitkthe freedom of the City on applying at the Guildhall. One old /boy, ■Second Lieutenant J. R. Johnston, had won the Military Cross for capturing 40 German soldiers and aa officer singlehanded. Some time afterwards, said Dr Chilton, a very little boy came .into my room, and shook 'hands with me. .1 could not remember his name for the moment, and he said it was Johnston. I said:

" Oh, yes., of course; you ara the man who caught 40 Germans." He said he was, and •when I asked him how he did it, be replied very qu'etly : •' Bluff, sir." Then he told me the story. Getting •equated from his men, lie came to a daSk/wnniri dugout. Turning on his electric torch, hj« faiMigfi that he saw half a dozen, of the enemy, and called upon them to hold up hands. Dr Chilton finished this story m the hero's own words:—"l went on after the men had put tip their hands, but they kept riling past me, Mid I -wondered what would happen when I got out.' At least. 40 had gone by, and then at last, an officer. I followed him and conrersed with him in the best German I could muster until we came across some of our own men."