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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 28 September 1915, Page 8

I The charge of twopence per message in future must be paid by the sender of all collect cablegrams, including Press. The charge i s to be affixed in stamps to the message. No extra charge is to be made on cable messages addressed to soldiers. How an Australian officer, by the use of a slang phrase, discovered an act of German treachery is related by L:«m----i tenant Hunter Bolton, son of Lienten- | ant-Colonel W. K. Bolton, of Ballarat, i who was wounded in June, and is now jin \ ictoria recuperating. Lieutenant Bolton has been on leave in Bendigo, where he was employed before enlisti i n =? ail d, m the course of an interview | there, he said: “On the Sunday night after t)he memorable landing, an ‘officer’ came up to us and told us not to ft re to the right, as there was a patrol i party out there. Captain Coop m,‘ who j was in command of our section, a* led j him who he was, and he said he i e- ; longed to the 31st Battalion. He had I taken the numerals off a dead soldier 1 of the 13th Battalion, and had placed j them on his uniform in reverse order, i Captain Cooped was suspicious, and 1 said ot th e supposed officer. ‘Are you I fair dinkum?’ Ignorance cf this Aus- | tralian term proved the downfall of the 1 officer,’ for the innccent’ly replied, ‘Yes, [ that's my name, I’m Dinkum.’ Thß wa ;3 the end of the German. Yovt mon.ambis dead body was pick id up Piitside