BLOWN INTO A GERMAN TRENCH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2656, 30 December 1915, Page 3

BLOWN INTO A GERMAN TRENCH

The father of a British soldier in the JRoyal Artillery received a communication from his son's commanding officer stating that a German shell had burst neaj the men, and that as 110 trace ot him could be found; subsequently, he mui-t have been blown to picces. After the relatives had been hi mourning for six weeks, the father received a postcard from his son, stating that lie was a prisoner in Germany, but was not wounded. The postcard gavo 110 particulars of how the writer was taken prisoner, but it is assumed that he was blown from the British trenches into a German trench by the explosion of the shell without receiving any injury ber yond being stunned. Miss AVinifred James, authoress of "Bachelor Betty," is back in England from tlio Panama, where she has been for some time busy collecting the material for a book, to be published by Chapman and Hall. Miss James has not been in good headth recently, but has managed to complete this book. While in the Panama she organised a very successful fete, as a result of which she raised £100 for tho Red Cross, mostly in small contributions by the negroes. Mr. G. S. V. Wenley, with Mrs. and Miss Wenley (Hawke's Bay), are leaving by the Remuera for England. It is hardly possible for people in New Zealand to realise how welcome' newspapers and weeklies published in the Dominion are to the men who are in hospital in England. According to a recent correspondent, who frequently visits one of the military hospitals in Bristol, where many New Zealand soldiers are quartered, they simply long for news of New Zealand. It would greatly ■ cheer them in their convalesccnco if people in this country would address papers to Mrs. N. Shore Nye, The Chalet, 1 Holmesgrove Road, Henleaze, Bristol, who would see that they were distributed among the New Zealand men in this hospital. Mrs. Salek, 216 The Terraco, will be very glad to receive bundles of old rags for sending out to the soldiers in camp at Trentham, who uso them for cleaning rifles and buttons.