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Show HOW BRITISH ADMIRAL X A WON DECORATION i :!: VICTORIA CROSS :: -h Special C'anlfi to The Tribune. - v LONDON. Feb. P. There arc only -j-! three Victoria Gross men. commis-r commis-r .stoned or on the lower dock, on -2 4- active service- In the British - navy -j- at. present. Ono of thorn Is Admiral t 4" Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, who has 5- just succeeded Lord Fisher. How v the pallant admiral won the covet- J -J. ed decoration mal:es thrilling read- ing-. At the battle of VZ Teb In tho J- Soudan, In 1SS1. the corner of ttho -r 'r nciuare where Wilson was In com- 4 r mand of tho naval brigade's Gard- 4-I- ner gun was brokon. Sword In hand. Wilson fought .single-handed :- and fileinnicd the ugly rush. Then -J-r his blade broke, whereupon ho I--I- fought with his fists, the sword- . Iill c making a most formidable 4 knuclclo-dustor which HCnt many a dervl.sh to the ground Wilson's -J. splendid stand enabled a detach-I- ment of the York and Lancaster to ! rush into the breach with tho bayonet and so save the situation. |