RIVAL TO BILL ADAMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 2, 4 January 1916, Page 8

RIVAL TO BILL ADAMS.

NEVER WORN KHAKI. Bill Adams has been rivalled by Carl Imre Might on, aged 18, an Englishman, who at Hull last month was fined £lO, or 51 days’ imprisonment, for masquerading as a lieutenant of the Yorkshire Eight Infantry. He was arrested while with a young woman, and when a band'age round bis head was unwound no wound was found. He said he was wounded in France at the end of September, but afterwards admitted he had never ■been in the Army. A letter in his "possession, addressed to a woman, 'contained the following; ‘‘The Trenches. Somewhere near Arras, France. —My Darling Ena, —I o. writing this little note from this he'd hole. We sailed from Liverpool to avoid the German ‘subs.’ It was a terrible long way round, and we did not, land until the early hours of Monday morning, when they rushed us up in taxi-cabs to the front. “We have been in taction since 4 p. this afternoon, and I never want to be in such a fearful place again. We are in the second line of trenches. It-is pouring with rain, and 'anything but cheerful!. We have had our major killed, many other officers wounded, and five or six second lieutenants killed.

“The Germans never saw us until getting into their trenches, 'and then they started .shelling us, and in the fearful rifle fire pcor Major was killed. I was only four feet from him. so I had a lucky escape. is renting hack to England to bring a fresh draft out. so I am giving him

this to post for you from Leeds. Give me a. thought sometimes. You will marry me, won’t you, when this lotten war is over?”

The defendant’s solicitor said vanity had led him into this trouble. He was anxious to make his friends believe he was an officer, and he outdid Bill Adams.