A FINE PULPIT VOICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1930, Page 2

A FINE PULPIT VOICE.

The Rev. R , asked how lie could speak so clearly and without effort, after already preaching five times in the day, .said, “I carry pulmonas and suck one every little while. They’ve strengthened my throat wonderfully and 1 never get a sore throat.” Rulmonas, Is 6d, and 2s 6d.—Advt.

the son of ;>■!’tailor, sees /-the horrid thing as it really was, behind the hue and in the trenches, eating, drinking, love-making, lighting, suffering, without a false note and without the omission of one significant detail. Schlump is a good-looking fellow whose amorous experiences include many adventures with French and Flemish women,-and' although these may not always be in accordance with English tastes, they may not lie so flagrantly

rcpcllaut as Were some of those se. forth by Remarque. Twice several wounded in the trendies, bis war ex periences include visits, home and sojourns in German hospitals. I'rom i. book such as this, one gains a .-very realistic idea of .what the war ifuean to the much-suffering rank and file and shows how they-.dreaded the Pommies and their on-daughts. Sclihimp is just, the ordinary German soldier, and by the time the conclusion is reached the reader comes to sympathise witli him, although the author

might, we think, have toned down the amorous episodes a little. Ibe final chapter, where Schlump regains home and bis faithful Johanna, whose devotion be scarcely deserves, is true to a. life which, after all, as related, is that of an everyday, ii at times sadly blameworthy, young German soldier, as much to be pitied as to be blamed.