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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1918, Page 3

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i -**+** f ' . , It is notified that Thursday’s meetr‘ ing of the U.A.O.D. Lodge stands nd--5_ journed for a week, y Tho prevailing epidemic having affD octed tlieir staff, Messrs Andrews Bros 11 Butchers, request all customers to call L at. their shop for tlieir meat until fur- 1 , tlier notice. Says an Australian writer: "A

menu oi mine was one or two Anzacs ! recently in Now York. Ho complained that he couldn’t get a chance to pay for I anything, ‘At last,’ he wrote, “1 went I into what they call ■ drug store to get sonic tooth-paste. 1 told them there I must hi' no nnncmuin nlmnf. ii. . T iv*ns

going to pay, and 1 passed ovy live dollar bill. Tlicy were nice abov it, and gave me my change. When, hav ing left America, I opened the parcel, found my five-dollar bill in it. The; had got one over on me.” Trooper Louis Saleh, of the Austra lian Medical Corps, who is now on fur lough in Wellington, states that soim months ago General Allenby vetoed tin wearing of “shorts” by the troops ii Palestine. liver since the arrival oi the New Zealand and Australian forces in Egypt “shorts” have been consider- ■ ed the coolest and most workmanlike leg-wear, but such is the filth and ingrained disease in the native population, and even the ground itself, that the men began to contract septic knees that would not heal without a very great deal of trouble. Now the mor.ntods wear dungaree riding pants, (which become white with washing), and leather leggings, and in the ease of some of the infantry, puttees. The following official wireless news was received in Sydney last week . by the American Consul-General: The Secretary of the Navy, (Mr Daniels), told details of the achievements of the Navy in making available for use at the front the great naval guns which Press despatches report are hammering the Gorman railway centres at the hack of the Oise and Serre front. The naval guns have been operating since Sept. 10th. Originally they were intended for the new battle-cruisers, but a change of design left the guns unavail able for that use. Rear-Admiral Earle, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, recommended that the guns should be sent to the West front. The first party of naval officers and men to handle the guns arrived in France on June 9th. The guns’ projectiles have a great er muzzle velocity than any weapon ever placed on mobile land mountings. Tlie weight of the explosives used in ?ach projectile is many times that used in the freak German long-range guns, and in point of construction and force they are incomparable. -A recently returned officer of the Royal Air Force tells a good story at lie expense of his commanding officer. Part < f bis duties of the R.A.F. on die Western front is to land spies, in meiny teritory, a hazardous and difficult mission. On one occasion arrange- ! nents were made for a errand of the : sort, and as usual the spy, • (a native) vas in attendance at the aerodrome the light before for instructions. He was old to disguise himself as much as lossible. At- the first sign of dawn the ommaiidiiig officer was ready with bis naebine, when a very dirty old native nado liis appearance and was told to ;et in. It is not an uncommon occur- . ence for the spy to go back on his bar- • ;ain when be lias received part pay- j lent in advance, and start to bargain • or more, so when the early bird refits- j d lie was promptly put in at the point , f the revolver, and in a very short into bis joy-ride ended and ho was put ’ ut on enemy country in the samo per- j uasivo manner. On returning to his ! ase the commanding officer found his riend the spy of the previous night , raiting, and then discovered that he ■ lad landed a harmless old native in lostile territory. It is not related how e fared. j Says the Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, Anglican chaplain at Trenthain in liis 1 ist report, published in the November ssuo of the “Church Chronicle.” “As I it here men are streaming into camp or the lirst time. They are civilians, I nit within an hour will be soldiers. To lie they appear as a multitude, many if whom will soon need advice and istance. I also knew that next Sunlay we shall have the unique opportuntv of preaching to 1000 of them, and everything depends! on their first impres:ions of us—our new hall at Heretaun;a will he packed—the next twenty lays will be crowded with interviews, riien there is another picture/ 1 walk iown the road and see a crowd of men in shorts and shirts on the march—they are about to sail; to them private afairs loom important, they swarm my room at night, hoys of twenty talk ibout a will, they have gained a sense of responsibility. So men come and go, one meets them for every possible purpose. It is great to see a mass of Lem at out- Monday concert—they are iu happy and appreciative. It is great to see a few gathered round the supper able discussing cake and other things, ft is greater to see the few gathered nightly in Chapel or for confirmation class or Scripture reading.”