A Hero Of Chitral

An Indian hero, whose identity people are never tired of discussing, is the offlcer, who, being refused leave to go with the Chitral expedition, obtained five days' leave to go shooting. He entrained to a point as near the operations as the railway would carry him, and then. being unable to obtain a horse, set out to maren. Equipped with a bottle of gin and a huge sausage as nis only rations, he plodded the weary miles over rough ground cheerfully. He reached the head of the column just as the charge was about to be made on the Malakand pass. He was in time to join the head of the storming column, and was in the first three on the summit. When the battle was over he had to eschew the camp, and the rest the fighting line, and nad to make his way back as best as he might t to a point where the railway would take üim up. l uettiu ucu. on riveiju Wood say that this ofBcer is a full colonel. He went lnto action as a common soldier, tearing the strapa of his Kharka uniform that his rank might not be discovered. For, as Sir Evelyn remarked, with a humorous twinkle in his eys, if he had been discovered he would have been put under arrest. - Tit-Bits.