STIRRING TALE Of HEROISM.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2002, 9 March 1914, Page 5

STIRRING TALE Of HEROISM.

BRITISH OFFICER'S GAILANf FIGHT.

AGAINST ELEPHANT POACHERS.

By TelefiiiLpli-PDoBS AssoGlaMott-Cufcyriiat • (Ree. March 8, 5.5 p.m.) . jLonaoni March 7. Advices froin Nairobi, in British EastAfrica, bring a stirriam' narrative of lterots-nt and pluck in a- reinote district south-east of L-a.ko.lludolf.

Licttt-OHftnt LtoytWonoe, m command of Lc-ij-aiiga.fana Statieiu iindfttoek a sis weeks' march from Nnirebi, and started off with Hfirr a political officer, a eoinpasiy of tWCiitytiyo of the King's African liiflps, ij score of eainols, ami a. dozen Soinah constates, t<3 se.a:rt'h jar Abyssinian elepluirrt raiders.

They discovered tho latter strongly stockaded in unknown limnhefs. Lloyd-Jones ndvoaocd quickly with lifteen rillee, hopiu-R to rush the 0.-nl,v entrance to tho Zareba< tltp loWiprs failing to respond to a preftiwp that thufr lives would be spared if they surrendered, Tho bugles saitnded tlio assault, and the soldiers clashed forward. The Jjli.tilo.l\«b hit and then a soldier- Was Sifted. Finally Lloyd-Jones was shot through bath legs. Twelve of the. soldiers.then retreated, fearing tlio two white e/fieei's and three crfelies at the raiders ,, moicv. Tho orderlies offered to carry off Llo.ydJones, but t,fe latter bade them rush tlio gate. This they achieved vitii greatyallaltky, killing all insido. tlie Zareba. Lloyd-Janes- was suffering to.frihle pain, and dojirium, owing to tho i-iiatle-qiiate supply of miaesthetics, .and was threatened witk ftvek-jaw. Through this devotion of the two Afyyssifcian orderlies the offer Was carried oe a strpteltcr for. forty-4toe diys., -over five hundred liiiles to.tlw-nearest meiiiea] station. . He- is now recororfrig in 'Nairobi Hospital, thiTttfilt lid will , b'e dripplflcl for life.