SAVING A COMRADE FROM THE UHLANS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 207, 8 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

SAVING A COMRADE FROM THE UHLANS.

front, affairs of outposts, cavalry enijacremcnt«, etc., are now matters o. daily occurrence. A correspondent in the'''War Illustrated" relates how a part/ of eight British horsemen Cama it ross a troop of Uhlans eighty strong. An engagement against such od<H would have proved disastrous so tip British cavalry retired. The last rider s horse, however, came down hoav.ly on the rough ground. Although the ■Uhlans were only three hundred yard* away, one of the troop stopped hi? horse Fhort and gave a helping hand to iiis comrade, dragging him up behind •jim into the saddle. Ther is an Australian fish, known ase -, he "leather-jacket.' which taxes thy -kill of its captor to the utmost. As -oon as it is hooked, instead of dashing ruvnv, ss does almost every other fish t sw'im« straight inwards, and if the 'no is not reeled in arpicUy enough it matches the slack between its tremetiy.msly sharp teeth and rips it through ,1 a moment.