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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 5

When opening a rifie chtfc at Wrfcham the other day Fieid-marsnal Sfa Evelyn Wood told some stirring stories in iflns tration of what good markmansbip can do. Thirty years ago, ho said, daring an at-tack-by 23,000 Zulus on 1,800 white men, a flag-bearer, himself unseen from »><■ laager, was directing the flank attack oi some thousands of warriors, who, cohered by the hilly ground, would, if they had charged, have been under fire for only 50yds. The British general, who was outside the laager, shot the Zulu at 192 yds, and then shot a second and a third who had picked up his flag. The Zulus abandoned the attack, and the position was saved. But who, asks a London journal, could' have been "the British general who thus played the part of David to the Zulu Goliaths? None but Sir Evelyn himself, as may be remembered by readers of his delightful reminiscences ‘ From Midshipman to Field-marshal!’