CHIVALRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1916, Page 5

CHIVALRY.

W ANZAC INCIDENT. troES' MISSION OP MERCY. London, November 26. An officer of the R.N.V.R. in Gall!* poli writes; — . Late one afternoon upon the extreme right of our line a nmn was seen in tho Turkish zone moving furtively through the scrub behind the beach, and about half a mile distant, and making for the narrow gap which eep»» rates the end of our trenches from tit# blue waters of the Aegean Sea. From the tall summit of the Lone* some Pine Plateau the Australian watchers looked on with interest, wondering what lus purpose Wight be. Suddenly a rifle shot rang out—£ Turkish rifle shot—and f«U' Wounded. ,

There he lay in the open bfiside,"tllß beach and bound up his wound and ihtra J ed his pains, a pathetic iiguve—a .piece of human wreckage cast up hy tlm storm and wrath, not of God but of man. On one side lay the of hi? friends from which he #as an outcast;' on the other his fee. determined, chivalrous, but not' implacable; while beneath him murmured the army of Allah —the heedless, careless sea. To which of these should he turn for help in hi* extremity? ,Surely to the forces' of neutral Nature. In tho liquid depth* of the broad Aegean hjs pains vculd find release —his mind peace! Slov.lv .he dragged himself, in spite f " a »h« trend limb, towards the waterside, while the sun drooped above • Imbros, t!ml< happy western isle whose hills secmud to cast their shadows ever, nearer.

A SOUL IN PAIN. Night fell, and in the faint starlight : ' the watchers upon Lonesome Pino look- - etl at one another questioning!}-. Little * they said, yet the same thought »u v Uppermost in the mind of each. Some* / thing must be done. There was a call , for volunteers, and a few minutes Inter -■ a party of gallant men from th<j back* . blocks were threading their way along ' the shore through the darkness .and ill* once, broken only by the music of w«Vei } and the cry of a soul in pain. i'' J They ca'mo upon the object of their ■; quest "just at the very margin of mad | and sea, and were raising him up, when "J through the shadow there loomed sud- f denly another band, a Turkish patrol, J bent on the same quest. Shots were ex* | changed, and the newcomers, who found, themselves at a disadvantage ally, were at once supplied 'with ft.* wounded man from among themseivcß to take hack to the Turkish camp in.pkw } of the one they had missed oy a f?w minutes only, while the other' party both rescurers -and rescued, had eoott reached the Anzac lines in safety. What led these men to hazard their 4 livs in so perilous an exploit, braying l | certain danger to save an unknown foet \| ] believe the old Philosopher Epicte* i tus once supplied the answer under J somewhat similar circumstances. 'Tliqy f have done this," lie exclaimed, ','nqfe for the man, but for the nature of man."- 1