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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14667, 26 July 1918, Page 6

French war bonds known as one month bonds, for £4, £20, and £40, are to be issued with an increased rate of interest if the holder extends them for a second or third month. Bi-igadier-General R. D. Oldman, who was recently wounded, is one of the discoveries of the present war. He is only forty-one years of age, and is extraordinary popular throughout the Army, his total lack of official "starch" being well illustrated by the following story: In the village 6f Gorre, which lies between Festubert and Bethune, General Oldman one day passed a young sentry who failed to present arms to him. More m sorrow than m anger the brigadier went back to the sentry. "Why did you not salute me?" he asked: "P-p-please, sir* I didn't know who you were." "Well," said the brigadier, *'I may not look like a blankey general, but I am one,"