THE LATE GENERAL MAUDE

Taihape Daily Times, 8 December 1917, Page 3

THE LATE GENERAL MAUDE

It will come as a shock to most people to learn from our cablegrams that the fell Eastern disease of cholera was the cause of the death of General Maude in Mesopotamia. A friend of the late General says: Stanley Maude was one of those rare generals who had an inborn love of fighting, and that was the reason he came to the front. He went out to France as a colonel, but his fighting qualities soon made him a man marked for promotion. He took part in the fighting in Flanders, in General Pulteney’s Third Army, and fought for a long time in the neighbourhood of Hill 60. In May, 1915, three divisions were sent out to reinforce Sir lan Hamilton at Gallipoli. Within a short whilh the three generals commanding them disappeared, and Maude was sent biit to take place of one. When he left Gallipoli, it with the reputation of being one of ablest generals who set foot on the Peninsula. Maude was, I believe, to the end against the evacuation, and to the last day hoped there w r ould be another fight with the Turks on the Peninsula.