"LINT," THE RED CROSS DONKEY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2565, 13 September 1915, Page 6

"LINT," THE RED CROSS DONKEY

NO TIME FOR HEALTHY MEN. One of tho men wlio returned wounded from tho front, by the Tahiti tells a. remarkable story of a donkey named libit, which was secured in Egypt by one of tlio sections of the Australian Fc-rces and was trained to do valuable work ill the .conveying of tho wounded from tlio trenches to the dressing station by the beach. .'Shrapnel' Gully, which derived its name through the persistence with which the Turks bombarded it, was the one feasible road to tho Australian trenches, as it had to bear tile traffic, , shrapnel or no shrapnel, a sap, six feet in width and soven feet in depth, was cut right up the gully for a distance of about a mile and a half. Lint belonged to a Red Cross section, and ho was trained to carry the wounded from the firing line to the dressing station without an attendant. Having deposited ,his burden' at the station,' thq meg_

simply turned him found and he strolled up the sap tq the lines again. So devoted did the donko.v become to his work that no one could rido the beast other than tlio corporal who had cliarge of him, and -wounded men, and before lie could bo approached a man would liavo to havo dressings on—the donkey appeared to know that the white dressings meant a, wounded man. One day, sad to relate,, a sniper got the corporal wliom Lint had learned to love, and for two days afterwards the heartbroken beast moped in the depths of despair. Lint wears a white band round his head, with a red cross in front, and his name is revered throughout the lines.

; PLENTY OF MACHINE GUNS SAY THE MEN FROM THE TAHITI. All inquiry was made among some of the men who returned by the Tahiti at the Town Hall on Saturday, as to how our forces in Gallipoli were, off for machine guns, the news being imparted to him that, there had been. a. movement afoot liero to supply the dolonial forces with more guns. , The men expressed the greatest , surprise -at the liews, an.l said that our forces had plenty of machine guns. "Machiuo guns!" eaid one, /'why there seemed to be as many machine guas as there were men, and rattling good work they'do when there's anything to shy at I"- " "