AN INTERESTING INCIDENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 6

AN INTERESTING INCIDENT.

Colonel Archibald Young, V.D., in a lecture given in Edinburgh, mentioned a curious incident of the recent British advance towards Palestine. When the British troops were approaching a certain town in the desert a deputation of the natives came out to meet them. The headman of the deputation asked for an interview with the British commander. In the course of the interview he urged the claims of the natives to kind treatment, arrd mentioned that he had brought with him a document showing how well and honourably they had behaved on the last occasion on which {' oir town was visited by European troops. He duly produced the document, which was found to be all that he represent- < t' it was signed “Napoleon Bonaparte.”