BISHOP'S GALLANTRY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3

BISHOP'S GALLANTRY.

LASt.TQ : LEAVE VERDu^ , •« i . ____ ■ , VANCOUVER. April 12. , A Paris message states that Mbnsignor Ginista, Bishop of Verdun, Avhose cathedral and paJace axe m the centre of tho smoking ruing, has arrived, m Paris. He left Verdun on the footboard of a locomotive, the only conveyance fov civilians.

: During the last five days of an intense bombardment the bishop went Trsm his palace to the cathedral many times to encourage the inhabitants, although, he said, there was nothing but valor in^ the- town. He accompanied to the. station the last convoy of civilians to .leave. Then he returned to the paJace until ho was ordered to go away. *<While their shells may demolish' the houses," said the bishop," "the Germans will never get Verdun." The bishop's temporary headquarters are at Bar le Due, where he fa caring for refugees, , •

In his leotard at Napier Mr Aahmead Bartlett paid a tribute to the initiative of -the colonial troops. On tho day of ths landing at Anzac .Bay, though most of-, tho officers were shot down, many of the Australians made their way to the* top of the hitrh hill of Koia Chemen and towards Maidos, on the other side of the peninsula of Gallipoli. They could be seen repelling the attacks of tjie Turks, but most of them, rover returned.*