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 THE AUSTRALIAN ( SOLD i UK. A 1.. ¡ 80 LI) 1 J:.Al\. f PEN SKETCHES OF I E'V i -L  DARE-DEViLS. MAN TO MAN RIFLE DUEL. j (By Captain C. j £ » L. Lean, Official Press I B«presentative with t'iie Australian torces in tlw Darcland-les.) GABA TEPE. ou occasionally come across men of the madly daring sort, of whom uny story might be tine, For example, some two month.s ago an officer in a battalion which I know very well indeed was going along his section d Are trench when he found a man standing* up a head and dioulders above the parapet and blazing at something over it and then calmly lowering his rifle and standing there looking l?i ?i t-rertell (, f the over the parapet wijth a trench of the enemy's not three hundred yards away. It turned out that he was having a. duel with a Turk. I do not know by what quaint sys- tem of mutual signalling they arranged it, but each one was having one shot at the other and then standing up there for the other to have the next shot at hmi. So they blazed at one a,noler while the men along j that section of the trenches looked en through their periscopes and loopholes, and no doubt the Turks were looking through theirs also. ■ The officer told the man to stand dowll at ones ana not to be a fool. The duellist step- ped down when he was ordered to. but uie moment the offic.r had pained he jumped up again and want on with the game. His r i val's shot had almost grazed his car. Bora sides were eagerly Icok?ig an 01i--?,P-rvaigi quite honourably tho rules of this extra?r- dinary gamf; t:;eu tho Australian ?U j>ac.< into the trench shot through the temp10. The -I  shct  ?ct CH:?" not ftcm the Turk c? posite, but from a distance to the south. While the Australian was ?hootiug, same 1 otLer Tunc had sh(M him. The Turk who shot him was not necessarily a bad sportsman—certainly j not a bad soldier. Probably he did not know that any duel was picceeding. and he was not bound to honour it if he did. That recklessness is a great qua 1 itv-I That rec k les,iieL-zi I'? think it is really an indispensable one—m j such operation." es the la-miing or in Wild night-fighting I I I i m t'tacRless ravines s-.ac.ii as 01 tne oatue of Sari Bail'. But it has ic3 value in trenca fighting too. The world knows that in the terrible charge yhich the Light Horse Bri- gde made across the .n ec-k between Anzac and the Turkish position m the dawn ] of August 7t.h a few bght horsemen did actually get across vvniist- the whole lorcc the.* started suddenly eank to its knees and seemed to ia,illt ii-i the scrub behind the-m. I was calking thi3 week to one of the very few officers who j was wounded in that charge, and who managed to get back—the k;i!"c-d twice the number of the wounded on that pcca- | sion. "He v.-as in the second line, which started two rtiirute6 later than the first from the sa-ne trench, and he n;id the ret of his line had their eyes over trie parapet as soon the first- line started, and saw the firs Ene relax its rnusdos and fail for- ward ,about to ten yards from the pet. The sc con a line knew perfectly well what it was going to, and the third due still more zo. Yet, when he was ling out there a-boat fifteen yards from our trench—the second line passed ths bodies of the first some six ev eirht yarns cut, and managed to reach a utile farther btiore they fell— j while he iviii, out there waiting for the third iine to coma ovei', it happened that an isolated man rushed pa.t him racing for the Turkish trenches. They we. e each quite alone, and they pitched forward five or six yards after passing him. The third line never came so fér-or perhaps these two were the sole remnant D: it that reached r.tsn ¡jlùr.e was Apparently n-li a rlovirg thins en the ground I- 1 I- around hin, or near nor. only otu aeaa, and the bullets flicking up the dust and the shrapnel thrashing the earth into a j haze. But one unb ounded or slightly wounded man must have been there, for prt- sently a figure eager! up to this officer. -Wfti-t had I better he asked. He must have- been wondering whether it was his duty to jump up a-id rl1"h Oil like those other I dauntlt>.s fellow- "Get back any way you oan." said- the officer. Poo- chap, it is not l ue chance in a hundred that he did sf). Tho o?icerliini?'f ed?cd u.-?c': very slowly, always k?cpin? his he?d h t? enemy, shoving him- seU with his hands with 3 bullet through his foot. It was slow work, but He was not far from our lines when he <'<»•; t a t»g at his sleeve. J 'a,-i been spiked by a dead man's I bayonet. Tie tugged and tugged, but it would not tear—he- b.(i to go forward again with the zt all the while befc-i-6 he could disengage it. Pre- sently, quite unexpectedly, he found his f"t working into space, and lurched over into the shelter of one of our rap?- j Why Crrre. f?y-"ay b; rec k less, ?utpor'ior? ?.cni ca;'r,' :t: f:rc;l::Str),:lt ("i7,fk; A'.?h'a.ii.'? brigadier was going rOU1d his fines the other day when he saw ? hc?v?tv- built man whose appearance made. him & srconcl time. 1 "T,¡1. T your cap," said t'r- birgadier, i The man do! -o. vVhat age are yon V ''Fort; five, ai r. "-So, vo.ii' r a-I ?o"? '?'r)t'??/' :;s^y;» W hat made you come- j "WeU. I had two ?')?. -md tli?- '??r? bc,b killed at the beginning. That's why I came.

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