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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 2

The annual report of the Royal LifeSaving Society for the year 1916 (writes our London correspondent) states that the New Zealand Dominion Council has a splendid record of progress, the Wellington a.nd Wanganui centres being particularly worthy of special mention, while a new centre as the North Taranaki Head Centre, .with headquarters at New Plymouth, has been formed. The Auckland Head Centre hag also gone through a keen period oi revival, and the outlook for the future so far as this Dominion is concerned is most promising. While on the subject of New Zealand the Central Executive takes the opportunity of paying tribute to Lieut.-Colonel (now Brigadier-General) B. C. Freyberg, V.C., D.5.0., of Wellington, the "Hero of Beaucourt." Lieut.-Colonel Freyberg, who gained the D.S.O. for swimming ashore in the Gulf of Saros and lighting flares to mislead the Turks, qualified for the proficiency certificate, bronze medallion, teachers' certificate, and award of merit of the society while in New Zealand, and was one of the lion, instructors of the first classes ever held in Wellington. Messrs. J. A. Duffy (Wellington), C. Bryant, and B. F. Burlinson (Auckland), have been elected lion associates of the society, and the Disinguished Service Medal has been conferred upon Mr. G. S. Hill (chairman tff t!#e Wellington Head Centre).

Methods of the Senussi are described in interesting fashion by Lieut. M'Alister, an old boy at Wellington College, in a letter to The Wellirigtonian. "We had an enjoyable time at Mersa Matruh," he writes, "thanks to the machinations of the Sheikh El Senussi. This estimable gentleman had conceived the idea of conquering Egypt, as we learned from his printed Proclamation found among the papers captured from the Senussi. These same people, of the better class Bedouin type, gave the Italians trouble in Tripoli not very long before this war, as you will remember. Their usual style of fighting is to lure their .antagonist further and further on into the desert (the Lybian), away from his water supply. When the pursuer is so far out that necessity drives him back to his base, the Senussi hang on to his rear and harry him. This never gains them a decisive victory, but it whittles away the opposing forces and has a certain amount of moral effect. On Christmas Day, 1915, we were fortunate in taking them almost by surprise, so that they had to make a fight, in. which they lost heavily, and we came off with remarkably few casualties. But our second expedition chased the wily Senussi 60 miles in two and a-half days without even seeing his rearguard (if he had one)!" Be warm in winter time. Large selection of well-built winter shirts, including our bargain line at/ 4s 6d, or three for 12s. Geo. Fnwlds, Ltd.— Advt. -