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Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 March 1918, Page 3

Mr Sidney "Webb, of the .firm of Messrs Blakiston and Blakiatoa, and eldest son of Mr and Mrs T. M. Webb, Knitoke,o met with an unfortunate accident. on Tuesday evening that will confine him to his bed ( for some weeks. He was motor cycling home, and when near the Manawatu bridge, collided with a gig.. Ho was thrown heavily to the ground", and when medically examined was found to have seriously injured his right leg at the knee.

"I have always been very interested in the artillery, , and the number and size of the guns is a revelation to me," writes a Wellington soldier to his relatives. "If yon are standing anywhere near one of the big howitzers, the blast almost blows you off your feet when it is fired. When several hundred of them are going at the same time it is like an earthquake and a. thunderstorm combined, and the ground, simply rocks under your feet. The noiso is deafening, and they can often hear the roar of the Flanders guns over on the other side of the Channel. It is wonderful to watch the aeroplanes and the methods they have of communicating with the artillery, giving the ranges of the Hun trenches and batteries. I have seen Some great combats in the air between the rival airmen, and it is an awe-in-spiring sight to see the 'planes circling in midair, tljeir machine-guns spitting the whole time, and wo have to.' keep our heads pretty low v. hen the pieces of bomb and shrapnel begin to drop.''