BOYS IN SEA BATTLES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 20, 12 March 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

BOYS IN SEA BATTLES.

A remarkable feature of the naval battles of the war is the number of training-ships which have been in action. The Highflyer, which sank the armoured cruiser Konig vVilhelm _ der Grosse, is a training-ship for the Navy. The Cornwall and the Carnarvon did good service in the Falkland Islands battle, and they were both sea-going training-cruisers' for cadets who have completed their course at Dartmouth. Other ships, either training-ships or having cadets on board, have not been so fortunate. The Hawke, sunk by a submarine, was one of the boys' training sduadron. The three ill-fated cruisers. Hogue, Aboukir, and Crcssy, each contained a large complement of cadets who were still under instruction at Dartmouth at the beginning of the war, and there were many Dartmouth cadets 1 on board Admiral Cradock's flagship, the Good Hope. DECORATED AT SEVENTEEN. Private Albert Victor Sworn, R.A.M C , who has won the Cross of the Legion of Honour, the meuUUle mihtaire, and been mentioned in despatches twice, has written to-his parents at Sunbury, England : . , . "I have now been invalided home with a general breakdown, hut hope soon to "recover. The first I heard of tho Cross of the Leg Ton of Honour was when Major Cowey, R.A.M.C called me aside a week after the incident and said- 'I suppose you know you have been awarded the French Legion o Honour?'' But I didn t, and he told me and I have since had the official confirmation. The date I don't remember nor the dav, nor the circumstances. I won the medaille militaire in the first week of the battle of the Aisne." RUSSIA'S MILITARY MARVEL. The new Napoleon that the war in Europe has produced is oddly enough a Russian. He is General Russky, whose name has frequently been seen in despatches from the war of late. He has not lost a battle since the great Russian bear started its operations against Germany ana Austria. It'was Russky who led the Russians against Lemberg, and through his strategy and perscrvcrance the city tell. General Russky is 60 years of age, but a man of aggressiveness and power. H> i" beloved bv his men, who, regardless of the hard driving he gives them, worship him. His own feats on the battlefield—no is a veteran of two wars—have made him one of the most lamous of Russians. He served as a lieutenant in the Kiis-so-Turkish war, and was decorated for gallantrv. When the Russo-Japanese war broke out, he was sent to the front as chief of staff of the second Maiichurian army.