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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 12

TWO GOOD STORIES. The Sydney Sim has two good stories dj..,tne war. The Australian .Brigade, it i'tltes, had advanced under heavy, fire to the foremost British trench.. There was ground in front of thein to be won from the Turks. Great dash and daring wore needed. Brigadier General ■ (named suppressed by order of the Minister of Defence) .sized up the situation and reckoned it was desirable for him to give the men a bold lead. Turning to Captain (name suppressed by order of the Minister for Defence), who wa3 beside liiui, he remarked, ''This is where I have tp dp the fool act," and clambered up on the trench parapet. Captain Bean has described how the brigadier walked miraculously unliurt through a storm of lead, Jjut there, was another little incident which the official correspondent hadn't a uha-nce,,of. noting. It was a private from the brigadier's own town who peered at him from the trench and shouted in wild entreaty, "Colonel, Colonel, Colonel, come in out lof the wet, yon —— fool!" . ■'■ And I do believe,'' snid the brigadier afterwards to Major -r-- (name suppressed by order of the Minister for Defence), "that the man knows to this .minute that he did not.call me Sir!". '•I SAY, COX " '• It is traditional—but not true—that the better soldier a man 'is in the field the worse speaker and writer he is at story has long been current in the new armies, though it will be fresh to most liome. Apropos of this, an amusing (Civilian readers. A subaltern officer •left tMe mess-table early, on the plea of having to write to Messrs Cos, tile offi. eial Army bankers, on important business. Two hours later he was discav- . ered, pale and perspiring]' bending over a ■sheet of paper. He lm| gofc, as, far as "I ,