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SULTAN'S INTERVIEWING
OFFICE
QUIT PUSHIN'!
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CLEARED ROAD OF LAND MINES
Indian Officer
Refused Relief
Lying in a military hos- pital, suffering from split eardrums, exhaustion and shock, is a 21-year-old In- dian officer, who perform- ed what his commander dessribed as "one of the longest continued feats of sheer, cold courage I've ever met.
He is it second heitenant of Indian sappers, and the scene of his gallantry was the Metenima. Gondar Road in North-Western Abyssinia.
When our
advance began he was in charge of a party remov- ing Itaban mines from the road and its sides.
In one stretch of four miles) there were 14 separate minefield.j with up to 300 mines in each.
Twice Blown Up
Despite all precautions, our ears were twice blown up, and on each - occasion this officer was the only
survivor.
SISTER AGNES PASSES AT
EIGHTY-EIGHT
(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"}
Miss Agnes Keyser ...---Sister Agnes--who founded the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London during the South Afri- can War, has died aged 88.
She nursed King Edward when Prince of Wales, and the present King when he was operated on for appendicitis. She was for
years a regular guest at Balmoral and also had her own key to Buckingham Palace gardens. Wireless.
British
But he declined relief, declaring.
"I think I've learned the Italians system in laying mines After he had been on duty con- on this road. Any relieving of- tinuously for 48 hours the com-fleer would have to learn it all mander saw him with a view to over again and could not possibly relieving him by a fresh officer. do the job as efficiently as me."
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INDIAN HEROES AT KEREN
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An Indian officer with seven years active service, who took part in the storming of fort at Dologorado, key of the main defences covering Keren, described the ac- tion as being as hard as any he had known.
"The fort had concre'ed machine-gun positions, a double apron of wire and some feld guns Our gunners did very well but could not And suitable positions to cut the wire and we simply had to advance straight up to the fort. eut the wire and drive the Italians out.
"After we had taken the fort we had got observation and start- ed for the first time to do some effective counter battery fire.
"Tinder its cover our battalion advanced to the top of a small hill just under the Italian positions on the crown of the heights,
"We lay there several days. shel'ed from the right, left and centre, and having constantly to repel counter attacks, until could advance again.
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"There were many brave things done. Our platoon had been told to capture two machine-gun posts which had been troubling them. Instead of using the whole platoon the officer asked for one volun- teer.
"The youngest man in the platoon -- he was only 18 stepped out, illed two haversacks with hand grenades and worked his way round behind the machine. gun positions. each of which contained four
men," Wireless.
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M. Baron, who has replaced M. de Schompre, who is now with the central organisation in Londen, is expected to stay in the Colony for several days, discussing var- ious problems with members of the Free French movement and the local authorities.
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