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Show Gurkhas Are Rare Set of Fighting Men Blood brother to our Highlanders," says Tit-Bits, and a soldier who becomes be-comes a fighting fanatic when the billets bill-ets are flying and the steel is flashing, flash-ing, the Germans will find the gallant Gurkahs, who form part of the Indian contingent at the front, "a rare hand-Five hand-Five feet nothing, as a rule, what the Gurkha lacks in inches he makes up for by his wiriness, agility, the deadliness of his aim with a rifle and the much- dreaded kukri, his faorite i K weapon. L The Gurkha is never so happy as 4ff when wielding the kukri, a large, jl heavy knife with a peculiar shaped fla curving blade, at close quarters. With 1 It be can easily cut a man In two, and, vH Incredible though It may seem, a fa- Ik orlte feat at his native festivals is to jfll cut off the head of a bullock with one W& blow of the kukri. iR Close-quarter fighting is his forte, IK and his Imoetuoslty to cross steM with ;B Iho foe will undoubted, draw him Int M many a hot corner. The Gurnua Is "K the Japanese of India, hard as nails, the best of scouts and a fearless fight- ?K er. He earned England's undying S gratitude in the dark days of the Indi- V an mutiny, when that empire seemed K likely to be overwhelmed by tho mu- B tlnoiis Sepoys, 10,000 Gurkhas crossing over from Nepal to assist the Govern- 'E ment. And many a stirring story Is K told of how the "little brown men of K the hills" flung themselves at the jvK treacherous Sepoys and avenged tho k ghastly crime of Cawnpore. K Fighting is second nature to a Gurk- flE ha, and great was his disappointment ? when ho was not allowed to take part Vila in the Boer war. He has always been jWc. loyal to the British, and the Gurkhas ifi are the only troops in the world of fat whom It can be said that they have tie never shown panic in warfare. M? |