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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 8

. "Captain Travers owes his life to the' fact that he is on the brigade staff" (writes the correspondent of the Sydney Sun with the New Guinea Expedition). "The story comes from one of the German prisoners. He states that when Travers, with Lieutenant Bond, was ad« vancing to take possession of the wireless station behind Herbertshohe, after the surrender of the enemy in the outlying trenches, a German reservist, who has tho reputation of being the finest shot in the islands, covered him at thirty paces from a trendi near the station. He .was about to release the bullet on its mission of death when he saw the red trimmings on the collar of Travers's tunic. 'Gott, 1 he said, 'I nearly shot a doctor.' And, so he lowered his weapon. It was extraordinary luck for Travers that this man should have mistaken the badge of the staff for that of an Army Medical Corps officer, for he is famed for his skill as a marksman, and if the trigger had been pulled Travers would have surely gone the way of Elwell and Pockley. At this particular time the German did not know the station had been surrendered, and he has since explained to me that if he had shot Travers or anyone else in such circumstances ho would have assuredly blown his own brains out immediately afterwards. And I believe he was telling the truth." In our overchanging' climate. With four seasons in each day, 'Tis essential to survival. That wo check its baneful sway. But. howe'er our lungs may suft'or, Through such tricks of temperature, , We still find unfailing remedy / In Woods' Grent Peppermint Curo. —Advt.