WAR RELICS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 9

WAR RELICS

IN INTERESTING EXHIBITION. Lioutenant-Colonol J. G. Hushes. D.5.0., has interested himself in tho arrangement of an exhibition of war- relica for the benefit of the R-ed Jersey appeal for war relief funds. The oxhibits, which nro of very great interest to nll'toncerncd in the- war, aro display-d in a largo : .well-lighted room at ttie rear of the lied Jersey shop in Mr. H. D. Bennett's building in Willis Street. They include trophies from all w fronts, and exude the atmosphere of battle. Ainon? them is a German machino-gun, which can .too carried by one man, and is fired from the shoulder by means of a trigger; a Borvicoable-looking German trench .mortar on a wheeled iron emplacement; German caps, gas-masks, helmets. Oil one wall is displayed an official German flag brought from Samoa after fhe New Zenlanders' oecuimtion of tlio island, and on tlio opposite wall uro suspended a number of the shattered instruments of the band of the Jth Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, on which the German machine-guns' and shrapnel played unpleasant tunes at Neuve Egliso. . There is n fascinating - collection of bombs, including the picturesque streamer bomb, the "pineapple" bomb, tlio handy "Mills" bomb, and Turkish cricket-ball bomb. Then there is n collection of letters recovored from deceased Hmis nfter battles, a German trumpet, a collcction of Sapper Moore-.Tone='s wntfr colours of scenes on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and a model of a German "Gotha" battleplane. 'Altogether the War Relics Exhibition. is well worth a visit.