CAVE MAN WHO WAS GENERAL

Dunstan Times, Issue 3513, 16 March 1931, Page 6

CAVE MAN WHO WAS GENERAL

Kxntoor's cave man, who was once a general in the army of Haitai, the black republic, was buried in the little church of St. Decuman, near Minehead, England, recently Ho was John Moles, aged eighty, who for many years lived in a cave near the roadside at Duukery Beacon. A short time ago lie had to leave his cave when the land was taken over by a new owner, but he refused to give up his open-air tile, and spent bis last days in a. rough shed on the moor at Timberscombe, where he diod. He joined the army in 1870, Fought in (he'.'ilth Foot Regiment in the Afghan war. entered Kabn, and was with the detachment. which. fighting in Tibet, forced it.-, way into Lhasa, the " Forbidden City." " He fought under Kitchener in the Sudan. Moles left the army, ami became a sailor. Ho went to South America, where he worked in plantation.-, and became a trader. He mixed in politic-. and took part in several revolutions. At Haitai he helped the revolutionaries in a successful coup d'etai, and was made a general. A low years later another revolution overthrew his party, and Moles bocame a refugee. He returned (~ England, where he settled down in the west country as a mole trapper.