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STALKY IN PERSIAN COMMAND Original of Kiplings Hero Is Famous as General A B Dunstervillo London Kng October 15 Kiplings Stalky Stalky Co has come to life Uncle Stnlky moral reformer of Sefton and Campbell slave of the lamp astute diplomatist of the unsavory interlude of the roof hidden cat and the house master King KingJen Jen Arthur Bruce Duiisterville C M C com ¬ manding the British forces in Persia who figured prominently in a recent official dispatch is no other than Stalky Kipling was Beetle of the and Co McTurk is treading again the barren purple mountains of the rainy west coast where in his holidays he was viceroy of 4000 naked aces The firm members have never allowed that stanch friendship to lapse they are all carrying on in their different corners of the seven seas seasDmisterville Dmisterville is a widely known figure in India Until recently he was in command of the Twentieth Punjabis The interval is supplied by Kiplings picture of Stalky in the famous story Got dam near court martialled and broke in Egypt in SV the Infant volunteered I went out in the same trooper with him is raw as he was Only I showed it and Stalky didnt What was the trouble said McTurk reach ins forward absently to it and Stalky didnt Ob nothing Ilis colonel trusted him to take twenty Tommies out of wash or groom camels or something at tha back of Suakin and Stalky got embroiled with Puzzles five miles in the interior He conducted a masterly retreat and wiped out eight of em He knew jolly well hed no right to go out so far so lie took the initiative and pitched in a letter to his colonel who was frothing at the mouth complaining of the paucity of support ac ¬ corded to him in his operations Gad it might have been one fat brigadier slangin another Then ln went into tho Staff Corp That is entirely Stalky said Abanazar from his armchair armchairSTALKY STALKY IS DIPLOMAT AND LINGUIST LINGUISTGen Gen Dunstervillcs arrival in Mesopotamia was characteristically dramatic A secret expedition was being organized for some mysterious mission in the north Picked officers were detached for the adventure Xo one was supposed to know where they were going or what they were going to do only it liecame known that they were always chang ¬ ing rupees at the field treasury for the Persian keran The mystic word Caspian was in the air Then to complete the mystification who should step iu the stage as their leader a veritable god out of the machine but Stalky StalkyRecently Recently en Dunstervilles name appeared in connection with the expedition for the first time and it was officially divulged that Stalky Co have penetrated as far as Baku whenc they have been compelled to withdraw on account of the defection of the Armenians ArmeniansStalky Stalky as may be gatheied from the pases of his prophetic chronicler is a diplomatist as well as a soldier and there is as much scope for diplomacy in the environments in which he now finds him ¬ self a for the highest soldierly qualities which he is known to possess possessHe He spciks Itussinn like a Slav In Pekin e was the only Englishman who coull converse easily with the representatives of the different powers in their own tongue In his command of Pushtu and all the patois of tlie northwest frontier he is second to none He had always been a uood Persian scholar and no doubt he has mastered Kurdish and all the dialects of the tribes on the road to the Caspian long ago agoAnd And he can interpret what is in the hearts of strange peoples as well as what is on their lips Psychology racial and individual Is his hobby hobbyAnother Another virtue that has already stood him in good stead is his remarkable control of temper In the early days of the expedilion he ran into a hornets nest of Itolsheviki who explained angrily that they could not allow this that or the other because they were now the friends of the Germans and the Turks and they might take it in ill part partOf Of course you would be Stalky said I Quite see your point of view It would be impossible that you would be anything else And now what about a little light refreshment refreshmentAnd And Stalky gained his point
