ALLENBY'S WOODEN HORSES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 3 May 1919, Page 1

ALLENBY'S WOODEN HORSES

! HOW TURKS WERE DECEIVED.

Many good stories of the employed in deceiving the enemy are told by returned soldiers. At the lime a vigilant censor prohibited their circulation, but to-day they afford good reading. One such yarn is vouched tor by a member of the draft that reached New Zealand from Egypt last week. It seems that for some time before launching Hie attack which resulted in the annihilation of the: Turkish army in Palestine, Genera Allenby steadily withdrew mounted men from his right flank and concentrated them in the area towards the coast. It was essential that the enemy should be kept in ignorance of what was going on, if possible. Camped on the mils above Jericho, he could look down on the British lines on the plain by , the Dead Sea, and the problem was to convince him that no movement was in progress The hoarv old ruse of the wooden horse that led to the fall of Troy was revived to deceive the Turk. V\ nen a regiment moved the horse lines were, filled with wooden horses, and just before .the attack was launched, on the right flank wa* little more than lines of dummy animals with a nucleus force to land aJi air of activity to a practicallv deserted, camn, and to light fires at night td keep up the impression of a big troops. The secret seems to *aye-*ean kept, for no attack wa* made.and.WJmh Allenbv launched his great offeSfttyC' jJ I the coast sector Johnny Turk boltedjup the right bank of the Jordan Without waiting to wonder why his rear was not pressed by the great body 0! lUOTttted men he was convinced that he had been watching through his glasses for weeks-

Two young men, W. D, Beqtt-«n£ Alexander Agnew, were brough .baor* Two young men, W. • and Alexander Agnew, were brought Mfow Mr F. V. Frazer, &.M., at the ton Magistrate’s Court, the Times, charged with drunkenness aadaa 5 sauling and obstructing the police. W* I former is a returned soldier and on Anzac Day he was somewhat under the influence of liquor. Being mcliMj i be disorderly in Lambton Qd a Y. ble Ruston remonstrated with.him. whereupon Scott struck him _ twice, though not severely. stable Graham appeared on th^^^ .Agnew interfered. Scott [court that it was been ‘stunned’ m his life. Ihe trate delivered a homily to flg young men, emphasising because a man happened to soldier he must not suppose that he was less subject to the law tliau any ordinary ’ST He was sure tie majority tamed soldiers would ■>"«£•«£ privilege of breaking any law. InW , case one man had arrest and the j , v fiiPT had interfered. It should M t»*r ;»cognised that when a policeman ■ his mind to make an «ur r «f less for anyone to attempt to mtertcre The law was not so stupidassome M*** J, supposed. the ac“tad would be convicted mi 4« \ charged. . ,

The serious* of the position wJri# * ha* arisen over the disco-tmuance <* work by, the Green ’J£ nears to bo hardly appreciated - bv> Dm vnblic of Duredin (says the ■ ■ "Daily Times). TV* Grgn W«d pH*ies turn out about 1200 tons of week, and .a* the mines jiot bee» worked now for three weeks there by l>eon a fallmig off of some 360Q tons in the supoly of coal- to Dunedin andl «»- vrbs The result is that. users of Green Island' coal have been forced to chase other coals, and at the time ihe-e is a growing scarcity of supplies. The position, moreover. has Vjc.p.n (accentuated by the flogdiPß two a,- three dm-, of the railway which tans the Kaitangatamiue. iho Green Island miners are still out- O’* strike. ' ,t, vcl there is nothing .to indicate when thev will resume work. It denied that the men br~ke the merit under which wlven then stopped rt'"ro> but it is pointed hv tsent the employees of the nUo broke their n?" o ement when 1 W left their work. In the Vt-imm*d . g£*. however, the of *-an» mpiovevs and pnmhvef« met in fOh- ' fpvenc». an amicable come to. the men returned to their employment. and everyth! P c is again voyKinp smoothly. *nd "6 WHorne*■ band the proprietors of the Gl^I v ii ’c-fli-fw taw “!> lll to meet the mm in conte'ence. U m an element in the ca«e that btfl > Jg owners and the miner* owe the general public, and this more e-vwci.-dly in the st-enaous times m which we are now living