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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 255, 11 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE COSSACK KNACK. \USTIUAX OFFICER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CAPTURE. The Paris "Matin"' publishes tho following:—"An officer of Austrian Hussaw, captured in Galicm give 6 th e to - lowing account of how ho was earned off bv a Cossack: . "Our cavalry advanced to the battle with ardour, but. the Cossacks toll on us like a whirl-wind. Hardly were we m touch tlian a f. -• i; dealt me three simultaneous blows, with hi& lame, sabre, and fist. How* ho did it I don t know ; but ho did not even give mo time to fall. Ho seized mo by the collar lilted me nn to his horse, and carried mo off. His comrades acted p'milarly. and a good number of our llussar, wire thus taken prisoners. ' Virtue lias many preachers, but few martyrs—lJelvetius