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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 284, 15 June 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

tingent, and changed his name to El.irt. One night he was selected as one of a party of three sent to discover whether a Turkish machine gun was still in a certain position. They crept silently up to loop holes of the enemy trench where the machine gun had been and threw bombs. Xo machine gun answered—only rifles spoke, so the scouting party started to return, a risky business. The chief scout told Elart and the other lad to crawl ahead of him while he t.'.gged the right foot or the left so as to steer them in whatever direction he wanted. They were almost near enough to their own trenches to give the preconcerted signal when cne of their feet caught in something and a piece of loose wire twanged. There was a flash ahead in the night before the signal fould be given, and a shot rang out from the enemy. Both boys rolled over, one shot through the face, the other through the head, by the bullet. Elart had retrieved and vindicated his honour—and Australia's!

FA.MOI'S DISGRACES. To those officers who. without being actually cashiered or dismissed from the Army, have had the disagreeable experience of being re-called frtm active service, it will doubtless be somewhat consoling to remember that many officers of our and other armies have suffered similar rebuffs, and have yet lived to become famuos leaders. Even the great Duke or Wellington himself, when he was Sir Arthur Wellesley, had the mortification of being ordered home in what was intended to be disgrace. When the news of the drawn but really disastrous battle of Chilean wallah, in the second Sikh War, reached this country, a storm of something like indignation arose. Lord Gough was peremptorily ordered home, and Sir Charles Napier was rent to take his place. But long before ibe latter reached India, Gough completely vindicated his military reputation by achieving the two brilliant victories of Mooltai and Gujerat. After the bloody tragedy of Isandhlwana, in the Zulu War whicn forms so terrible and thrilling'a page in the history of the Empire, I.onl Chelmsford, who bad charge of the expedition, was officially superseded by Lord Wolselev. But, as in the case ct Lord Gough, distance gave Lord ( helmsford the opportunity o,* retrieving defeat, and in succeeding in bringing the sanguinary campaign to a successful close before the arrival of his appointed successor. The battle of Navarino, fought in !N-'7. between the Turks and the combined fleets of several nations, including our own. though it resulted in p. victory for the Christian Tores, i had one unpleasant sequel in the j peremptory recall of Admiral Sir E. ! Godrington. The reason assigned for ! this official action was neither blund- I oiing nor incompetence in the strict ! sense of the word, but glaring miscon- j caption of duty, if not actual dis- ! obedience. If tJjo recall ii;>d the ap- : proval ol Hie Critisli public a great ' levulsion of feeling must have set in ! soon af'erwards compelling the Gov"i anient f<> offer Sir Edward a hand ■ ~n e p'-nsion. Tit" Admiral, however, who felt his position keeiiiy. res.".- i It'-My declined the pension, and be- I the •'ll i -'laciion of being reinstated ' iii hi - former position.

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