WORST DANGERS
TAKING OBSERVATIONS LIFE IS TOO STRENUOUS ("Tlmte" smd'Eydney "Sum" Berrlcti.) London, February 2. A Field Artillery officer writes:— "Our worst dangers are when the officers are taking observations. The country is so flat that it is absolutely necessary to get above tbe level, and so they are exposed to tremendous risks, with the chance of, giving away the locality of the observation station where the battery commander sits all day with a telephone. The Germans are busy the whole time with a telescope trying to discover him, aud when he is located they let drive their 'Black Marias.' Before daylight one starts to get to the guns, crawling round hedges, seeking cover, never going the same way twice; on arriving we romain all day. I have a pocket volume* of Kipling, but it is unopened. .Life is too strenuous and exciting to contemplate imaginary scenes. The situation every day and the incidents far outweigh anything in fiction."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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159WORST DANGERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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