HERO DESPATCH-BEARERS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLII, Issue 12823, 15 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

HERO DESPATCH-BEARERS.

IV invention of wireles. ha. .lone away with much of the old linie di-pati'h-seiidiiig vA " r \> na " M ", ir ,.M„e a feature of prev.ou.. war*, lift ", w'hen two iriendly ar.u.es nn :..,ar:,ted by a lorn- nl »«!«'.••■.".""'"i,. . , inatt.-r of defeat or victory that .» neaitof .•oinnmniration shall he openthem. Thousands ol l.rav. i, haxe !0.l their lives ..., pertorn. inf this tempoßiry war p..:.v.il - M " 1 ; Diirin.' tb • Knsso-.Japancse war a oil', -r o? C„,>a.ks offered to carry • dls, atcb which ten horsemen had al-n-idv failed to get through. . V . "., • ~'" faihMl." the msist"K travelled «h«* back I «4tnll UO "■>" ho [ M ' v -rmler votir horse!" th.; P'nera .*■ Aimed. " »»t "«• »«-*'! ,t, '«' 1! " , ,.°"' f r , "' •a. "o Mileer. Whereupon the Ces ou!"r received the pm.mun.oii. >n«T his nrnvers. Iwle. Koo.l-bye to .... ;?e and started off in the middle. • night strapped aee \ neatl. his horse, which wan- «? passing the •»••«>»»'«• •be forele.'* of the horse. I In* ■•••'»' ;,';, m,-,msts whistletl to *>•«'■,. thnnnlu was a riderless horse. 1 at « mt slioot at it when it did not heed hem The animal, driven on Hv kicks from the officers_ heels, he iotirney of thirty mi es in »frt>. On the following night the officer returned as he had gone. When Lieut. Gilmore. an officer ot the American Xavy, was captured by he Filioinos during the msnn»etion loiirtecn'vears ago he sent news of his through the Filipino mes hv i Spanish nrisoncr who had been liberated Naturally all sjich persons were earcftillv marched.- Bnt the inMxrlent offieeW had failed tc» examine the bamboo walking-stick of the Spaniard. The end had .been opened, the written message inserto.l and a c6rk was fitted into the hole again which also rendered tho paper safe from water. , . - .