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Taihape Daily Times, 20 November 1917, Page 3

FROM THE GAZA FRONT. SOME PERSONALITIES. GENERAL ALLENBY AND “FIXED | BAYONETS BILL. ’' A Now Zealand non-cominissionecl officer who has reeenly arrived bade from the Gaze, front in Palestine iu; much of general interest to say about that historical country. He found the climate of Palestine delightful, and as a man of advanced middle age said the effect on him was to make him feel 15 years' younger. Instead of feeling stiff in the joints the first thing iu the morning and at night he became as limber as a youth, and was always ready for his work, and a bit over. Speaking of General Allenby, the returned man said: “He is a man, every inch of him! Ho shook up the administration as only a big man could He never spares himself any work, and he has no time for the shirker, the shuffler or the “pretty” officer. He likes the man that does his work -well and looks for more —thuds' the man that gets on well under General Allenby. The first thing he did when he visited, Cairo was to ask what all the officers were doing there—there wer nearly a thousand officers and men on the Australian Headquarters Staff, leading the rosy life in the fashionable suburbs of Cairo. General Allenby rooted them all out and sent most of them on to the front, re-es-tablishing headquarters at Khan Yanish, far away from the delights of 'the wickedest city on earth.' “Then he found out that no men were allowed to be served at the Continental or Shepherd's Hotels in Cairo. He settled that by at once stopping all Cairo leave and making the regulation >that when who had 'been six months on the front should be allowed 48 hours leave from Maosear. So if they were lucky they got 40 hours in Cairo, and during that time they could visit the two hotels mentioned at their pleasure.. These actions made General Allenby immensely popular with the whole of the Army—of which the New Zealanders are only a handful—and lots of the men would face anything for him.''

“'Another extremely popular officer.” said our informant: ‘‘is ‘Fixed Bayonets Bill,’ in other words, BrigadierGeneral Meldrum, formerly a Huntcrvillo lawyer. His name describes him, and he knows his' nickname as well as we do. He is a fighter through and through. All the officers are given nicknames out there, and it’s surprising the liberty of language that is allowed there as compared with other fronts. There's no lack of discipline when there’s work to be done, but the men are allowed more tongue latitude there than anywhere else. I don’t know why it is—perhaps it’s the heat.” ‘‘There was Major Alec. Wilkie, as good a soldier as you would meet anywhere; and he was always called ‘de Wilkes.’ Why I can’t tell you, any ’more than I know why Lord Roberts was called ‘Bobs.’ These nicknames simply happen and they stick. One night the major was prowling about the lines in his pyjamas when he was arrested as a spy, The major stutters a bit, and in his wrath his affliction became accentuated as he protested that he was no spy but a New Zealand officer. At last he spotted a New Zealander, and, still held fast by the ‘Tommy/ said ‘L-l-l-ook here. Who am IV ‘Why, you’re old De Wilkes!’ said the trooper. ‘There you are,” said the major. ‘ ... I said you were making a blithering ass of yourself. ’ ”

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