GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 110, 19 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS.

SIGNIFICANCE OF FRENCH GAIN AT BAN DE SAPT. The success achieved by the French troops in the Ban de Sapt, has considerable moral' as well as material value The number of men engaged on \m French side was comparatively small; without going into details, it may bo said that it was probably ,30 per cent, smaller than that of the German force.

A leading French military critic thus crystallises the lesson to be drawn from the success : "It is it guarantee that when the oration i< repeated simultaneously on various pointe of the front, with effectives and means proportioned to the object to be attained, the German resistance will he broken in ita ensemble, is it partly wan in mis affair. - '

There are reasons for attaching special signifieanee to thin declaration—reasons which will probably declare themselves very speedily. The men at the trout, F.uglish as well a a French, know soiuetliiug of Ik-nt, and kuoiv that the present lull ivill be ishort-livrd V.C. IN A [JONS' DEN. SEHGEANT riT-LEH'S DARING RESPONSE To A CHALLENGE. Then- \\;i> ;i remarkable scene at ;■ Fishguard recruiting meeting one Monilav recently, when Sergeant Fuller, V.C. entered ;i cage containing two Af-rii-aii lions attached to, a menagerie. Fuller, upon telling the men if they were not tit to die they were not lit. to, live, was challenged to enter the lions' den. Fuller immediately threw up his eap. calmly entered the cage. and stroked the lions, amidst tremendous excitement. The proprietors awarded Fuller a gold medal as a momento. Mnnv enlisted as a result of the incident.