WAR INCIDENTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 653, 18 March 1879, Page 2

WAR INCIDENTS.

A picturesque touch is given to the capture of Ali Musjid by an incident narrated m one of the special telegrams. ,As it grew dark the assault on the fort was postponed. While the staff were next n^orning peering through the early mist preparatory to the renewal of the attack, they saw a flojitarv noAemen advancing towards them. "It "was the young Ohisholm of the. JLancera," who had gone oh a reconnaisance 1 by lhimself and found the fort abandoned"! Full of the impetuosity of tho English youth, he would not wait for. orders. Carrying his life m his hand, he had gone to have a look at the fort and the enemy. The story recalls some of the incidents of, the Peninsula War. It is not much unlike the exploit of the young officer, who while taking despatches,, saw some men working by the aid of a dark lantern, and who, his horse stumbling against a wire, was able to ascertain by following it the disposition for the next day's battle, and take back drawings to the commander.. And then there is a story of those sailors who, losing themselves one night, made for one of the enemy's forts which had given the allied forces a deal of trouble, and found it evacuated, whereupon they rushed back, secured a flag, and next morning astonished the staff by running up the British ensign. It was the same spirit which induced an Irish soldier at the battle of Inkerman to say to his comrade, as peering through the dense fog, he caught sight of a mass of Russian infantry m front of him, "Come along, Bill, here's scores of 'em." There .wilfcnot be much glory to be got out 6&ari Afghan war nowadays, but " Young QbisKolm: of |he dancers' 5 promises to connect his hame with it.