PHOTOGRAPHY UNDER FIRE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 46, 19 November 1918, Page 6

PHOTOGRAPHY UNDER FIRE

It was a daylight raid into the German trenches. And you may take it rrom me that is not the sort of tiling to'couipare with crossing Piccadilly, even on a matinee afternoon. Tho two men seemed to think it was rather funny as we crept i.long under the poor shelter that a thin,, hedge afforded and descended into the cover of a sumken road from which the raid proper was to commence. • Exactlv what they were going to do, these two strangers with their leaJicr. boxes, was not clear till we reached the iroad.' Then we knew. '.. • The small, chubby-faced man explain, ed that ho was going to take our photographs as we went down to the German trenches 300 yards distant, then he was »oin" to "trot along behind and snapshot \us as we jumped in among tho Huns! The other one, with tho bigger camera, calmly fixed his machine on a tripod. He was the kinemalograph man, and Ins idea was to take us as we ran for it down the road and' then film the procession when it returned with the unsuspecting Doche prisoners. " , Quite unconcerned and collected they were, even when our artillery put down the barrage. "Click!". went «ho came™ as tire leader.broke into a run, and again it snapped before tho .last-man 'Iviff bSfe busy just then and tha little dabs of dust that we-re kicked criss-cross, on the dry, road toW that someone had "a beat!" on us. A thee times you do not take in a B"*t ikalof what is happening to other people so I .do not know what occurred till 1. nipped over a strand of wire and fell into I hell-bole on top of a Frit* who. was tucked up into tho smallest compass ho could get hnnseirinlo. U do not know which of us got the bter surprise, and for a moment. I lay stub . "Click!" I heard as plain cs could IK, and here was the little , holography napping tho pair of us as we lay u. tho hole "Don't move yet!" he whispered, aB ,l another plate was exposed ' Well the "raid was a success and no m stake As we ■ shepherded the seven l»ck Along the road the k.nema holograph"!' coolly turned the handle- of Sine. The other one didn't have o a 1 us to "smile and look pleasant' as he look the last group, which I saw rooilueed a. few days later* he pap« with a simple inscription, "Some Geiman bluing was -i^otfcS