DOG’S FAMOUS VICTORY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 February 1925, Page 16

DOG’S FAMOUS VICTORY.

RO UTF.D IND fA N MUTINEERS.

General Sir George R. Greaves, from whom Earl Haig, as lie tells us, learnt more practical soldiering than from .any other general, died in 1922, at the age of 91, leaving behind him sonid memoirs of intense interest. Sir George went,to India in 1850, taking 120 days to reach Calcutta, in one of the old sailing transports. His regiment, the 70th Foot, was stationed at Oawnpore. In the years before the mutiny he made several visits with fellftw officers to Kashmir, for shooting and fishing. After the dusty, dry plains and hot winds of India, Kashmir was a. perfect Raradise; exquisite scenery, lovely river and lakes, green turf, fruit trees —all these were beyond description. Then there were the marvellous Kashmir women, with their fair skins and long black ' hail', who innocently used to bathe in hundreds by the river bank, and would hardly get out of the way when the soldiers' passed in their boats. The young subalterns were allowed to pitch their tefits in a garden belonging to the Maharajah., and were invited to dine at the palace. Sir Georg# was enjoying himself in Kashmir when the mutiny broke out. On the wav back to Peshawur, where his regiment was then stationed, he was attacked by. some of the mutineers, who, having been disarmed, had escaped to the hills. He had a few servants with him, but no arms except his sporting rifle and gun. Still, there was Ranee, his bull-terrier. On came the mutineers, the men behind 1 pushing on those in front. As they came nearer, Sir George took up fob‘rifle and called out to them to stop. At that moment Ranee sprang into the nearest man’s fare and bore him to the groupcl. making a fearful noise all the while, and the crowd turned and ran. Ranee, leaving her victim, followed them up, biting their naked legs and pulling off their blankets.. No engagement, in the. whole of the mutiny was sri* complete and swift a. victory.