STIRING NARRATIVE OF HEROISM AND PLUCK.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6085, 9 March 1914, Page 5

STIRING NARRATIVE OF HEROISM AND PLUCK.

British Lieutenant and Party Fight Fierce Encounter With Elephant Raiders.

ORDERLIES' DEVOTION

|(Per Press Association—Copyright.) 1 London. March 7 \ Advices from Nairobi, Pritish East Africa, furnish a stirring narrative of the heroism and pluck in a remote district south-east of Lake Puiiolf. Lieutenant Lloyd Jones, iv command ot the Leiyaugarana station, six weeks march from Nairobi, started with Uittermaster, :1 political oflicer, twenty-live of the Kings African riilcs, a score of camels, and a dozen .Somali constables, iv search of Abyssinian elephants raiders. They found the hitter -strongly stockaded aud could not ascertain their numbers.

Lieutenant Lloyd-J ones advanced .jiiickly with liftccn riilcs, hoping to rush tlie only entrance to the .arcba.

The robbers failed to respond although a- promise was made that their live .°\vouhl be spared if they surrendered.

The bugles sounded the assault and the soldiers dashed forward. A bugler was hit and then a soldier was killed. Tonally Lieutenant LloydJones was shot through both legs. Twelve soldiers retreated, leaving two white otlicers and three orderlies to the raiders' mercy.

The orderlies offered to carry oil' Lieutenant Lloyd-Jones, but the flatter bade them to rush the gate. This they achieved after great gallantry, killing all inside the /.arcba. Lieutenant Lloycl-Joncs, suffering tend Hie pain aud delirium owing to the inadequate supply of anaesthetics was threatened with lockjaT. Through the devotion of two Abyssinian orderlies he was carried on a stretcher for forty-three days a distance of live hundred miles to the nearest medical station- He is now recovering iv the Nairobi hospital, though he will be crippled for life.