UNDER FIRE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 March 1915, Page 3

UNDER FIRE

WHAT IT IS LIKE. Asked how he felt when actually under lire in New Guinea, one of the returned Australian soldiers by the Navua said, "I felt that 1 wished I was back in good old George-street "I was in a fair funk. And 1 wasn t tho only one that way. There were others than privates, too' who had tlis snakts pretty bad when the hardware began to whizz. "I was with a team that took its first course of bullet-dodging in the bush country. The shooting brought some 'cocoanuts down, and when they hit our fellows thought their first fight was their last, and that they were all in to a bombshell. "One hit me on the head and exploded. It was dead ripe, and when the milk came down my face I thought it was my brains coming out, and wondered it did not hurt more. I was going to peg out when I heard some of the fellows laughing. They had got the strength of it, and that was the end 01 funk among our crowd.

''Being under lire is like a lot of other things^-all right when you get used to it. If any man tells you he did not teel funky the first time he hoard the bullete- -real lead bullets with bliMit tops—buzzing by him, don't believe him."—Sydney Sun.