AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 7 October 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VARIOUS INTERESTING- ITEMS,

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I MELBOURjNE, This Day. The Arsenal Committee proceeds to India to-day.

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SYDNEY, This Day

Advice has been received from London of the death of Joseph Vial, son of a prominent Newcastle resident, the result of German ill-treatment. ,

At th e outbreak of war he was studying music In Germany. He was arrested and imprisoned in a cell with a consumptive, where he contracted the disease. After months of cruel treatment he was liberated, and proceeded to England, and went into hospital, but he did not recover.

SYDNEY, This Day

Lance-Ccrpl. Foster told l{h e story that Sapper Carlyon, when one of our ■officers was sniped by a Turk, that "Carlyon went cut and brought him in on his back. He wa s recommended for the Victoria Cross, but two days later lie was killed in his own dugout, struck by a fragment of a shell. He was a

real hero; everyone in my section looked up to him, even more than to the officers. He wioluM climb parapets and hand over -wounded, or do anything else that was rar e or daredevil. It just shews you the lucky game played by Carlyon, and so it is with others. All dngouts are in the safest position possible in tbe area of danger, yet when he took every 'chance in the world amongst bullets and shell fire from shrapnel, he never received a scratch.