"Music Hath Charms."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 November 1915, Page 3

"Music Hath Charms."

When the battle lines extend continuously for three or iour hundred ■miles,' almost anything may happen somewhere along tho way. Tho following pretty incident is one tiling that happened according to a letter from a soldier in Belgiuau that ;.s printedi by a contemporary It was a miserable night. A heavy rain had filled the trenches. Suddenly out of the darknes scaine a voice. It was singing a Welsh ballad called "Hob y deri dando," and it was a 'fine tenor voice. It was the cheeriest sound 1 had ever lioardi. At tihe end, a round of applause came down the trenches, but imagine our surprise to hear clapping and calls for more, m good English, from the German trenches. Thereupon tlie Welshman gave "Mentra Green." Meantime we realised that not a shot had been fired by cither side "during the singing. We had forgotten ail about war. So a bargain was struck with the Germans, that if nian would give us another side would lire any 11101x3 tiipa^iiglit. The third song was "Hen Wiad iy Miadau." It was probably tho first time that the stirring Welsh anthem was ever heard 011 this dismal Flem ; r.h morass.