DARING COSSACK EXPLOITS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 132, 14 January 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

DARING COSSACK EXPLOITS.

.*. REMARKABLE COMBATS AGAINST ODDS. Early in the war the exploit of a Cossack named KruehloiT. who. sin-gle-handed, destroyed a German patrol of twelve Uhlans, became famous

in poem and picture throughout Rus. sia. Now a similar feat is officially reported. Alexis Kirianoff. a trooper or the Rth Don Cossack uegtment, was taking part as a •'flanker in an attack on a German transport column. As he rode cautiously forward he sawsix Germans in a trench ready to enfilade the Russian main body with

their fire. lie instantly charged the trench, and snittcd them with his lance. Then hj& chased the four fugitives and caught and separately killed them. Later, when the attack on the transport developed. Kirianoff no-e-i a squad of live German riflemen busy firing.

Again he charged and ©gain rode untouched by the enemy's bullets. Three of the five he killed with the lance. The two others fled terrified into a little wood. Kirianoff dismounted and followed, finishing them with the sword. For these acts of cool courage and extraordinary vigour, which are attested by the captain of the squadron, the commanding officer of the regiment has given him a sergeant's stripes, and he will, of course, receive a high decoration.