AFTER FOUR DAYS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2958, 22 December 1916, Page 8

AFTER FOUR DAYS

CLOSE QUARTERS AT All MEN. TIERES. - Among the men who returned from the frontby the hospital ship Maheno yesterday* was Lance-Corporal W. G. Morpeth, a brother of M.\ C. D. Morpeth, of Wellington. Lance-Corporal Morpeth, who served at Samoa and went away with the Fifth Reinforcements, has seen a good deal of service, , having been pretty well right through tie Gallipoli enterprise. "I didn't last long in France—only four days in the trendies," he said in conversation with a Dominion reporter. "It was at Armentieros, and we were right up in the front line. Being an old hand, I was given duty at an observation post—only'Bo yards from the German lines. In the calm weather we had we could! hear them talking quite plainly, and there were times I could hear qnito distinctly, but , could not understand the language. It was a dangerous place, and) I knew it was only a matter of time before the would get me—sooner or later they must get one dead on to my look-out. The trouble was that they bad periscopes and I had nono. It came all right—an explosive bullet struck me on the forehead and bust there all round my eyes. Lucky for me—if it had Durst inside I would not be here." _ Lance-Corporal Morpeth lost his right eye, which has been replaced with a glass one, and has thescar of a wound on his forehead that will probably serve aB a distinguishing mark for the rest of his days. Ho is now in good health