THE VANISHED HUT
T.M.C.A. SHELTER "STRAFED" AMID SONGS OP NIGHTINGALES. Within a hundred miles or less of "Plug Street 1 ' (somewhere in France), somewhere near the Salient, there was not long ago a Y.M.C.A. hut, the gift of two ladies, in which the piano was .never ..sileiit and from which , the nien always marched to the trenches with a final chorus Of: "Oh, my I don't want to die. I want to go home." But i tho hut doesn't exist arty longer. For no known reason it Was' -r strafed" one'morning lately, and the five.nieli who v \vere in it when the "strufo'< begiii from the Safe .shelter of a dug-out watched it • disappear in splihters. In the intervals . between the. explosions- • the' iiightingiiles continued to sing lustily, but that, it i appears, is the. usual habit of flighting gales in France 1 . : And now hundreds of men. going to and coming from the trenches 'in. that region, look in vain for the hut that was their chief delight, for some wecks/nuist elapse before another, Which the two original donors have promised in its place, can fie erected in sonic safer spot.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10
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192THE VANISHED HUT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10
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