Evening star., 1915-01-31
! Distin nguishes Himself at the Battle Front

sembled after the holiday adjourn
ment. and Lord Kitchener summed UP
the progress of the war to date In :
language strikingly unlike that at
tributed to him by Irving Cobb in his
interview. Since the peers last met
together no less than four of their
number, all earls. have died, these de-
ceased nohlemen being the former
Earls of Bradford. Stair. Erne and
Courtown. The successors of two or
them. moreover. have not been able
to take the oath on the reassembling
OF the house. for these, the new Earl
of Stair and the new Earl of Erns
(formerly known az Niscount Dalrym-
pie and Niscount Crichton) are prison.
erS of war in Germany.
When these officers are able to return
and to take their places at Westmin-
ster. they will sit as Baron oxer DORA
and Baron Fernanagh, respectively.
the higher titles being on the Scottish
and Irish rolls. Only one freshly Gre
ated member has been introduced in
the newly assembled house. Lord Cum
life of Headley. the governor of the
Bank OF England
curious tradition in the Earl OF
Bradford's family is that all the sons
shall bear the name of Orlando, in
memory of Lord Keeper Sir Orlando
Rridgman. who became the first earl
in the reign of the Merrie Monarch
The new peer is Orlando pure and sim
pie. His father tempered Orlandoism
by prefix of George Cecil. The new
Lord Newport, heir to the Bradford
peerage. and aged about five, has
Gerald Michael before the Orlando
former British consul In eastern
Austria says that one Of the reasons
why the Austrian peasant on this
frontier makes a bad soldier Is that he
is terribly raid Of the night and its
ghosty inhabitants. The local supersti-
ton Is that man meeting with a violent
death bces1aes a vamIir-4- -srr--ii- sucks away
nf Il f= iE,-Ir
In addition to this rather unpleasant be-
lief, the peasants are firmly convinced
that wizards can render them uncon-
scious. and all this has a somewhat de-
press ng eject on men who have never
come much into contact with civilization.
As a result of one OF the most remark
able series OF incidents which the pres
ent war has brought 10 light a member
Of the famous British volunteer regiment.
the London Scottish. who surely must
bear a charmed life, has decided that
hospitals are not 81 e places for him.
The experience OF this soldier whose
name is Leasae, and who belongs to the
first battalion of the Scottish, surely
must be unique. When the Germans
bombarded Antwerp. Private Leaske was
engaged in business there. A German
shell made k.ndiing wood of the house in
which he was living. and simultaneously
made Leaske SO mad that he at once re-
turned TO England and rejolned the Lon
don Scottish, i'll whose ranks he had all
ready served. He WAS sent to France
with the LIST Battalit n, and dur ng an
engagement three bullets went through
his .vercoat without hurting him. But a
fourth bullet wounded h m in the thigh.
Then his astonishing hospital experience
began.
He was taken off to a base hospital
and had been there on'y a few days
when the Germans commenced Smelling
the building. He was then removed to
another hospital. which the Teutons also
shelled. Leaske was again moved, but
this time the Germans allowed him to
rest peacefully.
Eventually he was taken to England.
and sent to a fourth hospital in Hartlc-
pool. But he had not been there tweu-
ty-four hours before this building was
shelled by the raiding German cruisers.
Leaske then came To the conclusion that
hospitals were no place or him. and he
started off to his family in London. Their
abode has not Yet been attacked and the
much -harassed London Scot is getting
well fast.