TEACHING HIM MANNERS.

Evening Star, Issue 11676, 7 February 1902, Page 8

TEACHING HIM MANNERS.

A personal encounter, in which “ Colonel ” Lynch, the elect of Galway, figured to some personal disadvantage, is described by a gentleman who has just returned to Adelaide from England. Lynch was abusing British soldiers in the congenial company of a Paris cafe, when Mr T. J. Greenwood, a South African war correspondent, who went through the siege of Ladysmith, and was then on the Continent for a holiday, objected. He told Lynch that if he said another word about Englishmen he would treat him as a traitor should be treated. The insults were repeated, and the two came to blows, but as Mr Greenwood is a very smart boxer it lasted less than a minute, for after three blows the Boer champion was on his back in the corner, suffering a very slow recovery, and he was quite unable to continue the affair. The unkindest part of it for Mr Lynch was the climax, for the Frenchmen, who might, have been expected to sympathise with, if not assist, him, showed a sportsmanlike appreciation of the manner in which this solitary Englishman had maintained the honor cf his country. Most of them congratulated him on his courage, and one, who apotce English, said : “You treated him quite properly, sir. He was no gentleman, or ne wonld not have persisted when you objected.” The first thing Mr Greenwood heard on his return to Africa was that rii© man to whom he had given a sharp lesson in good manners was elected for Galway in the Home Rule interest.