THE HORRORS OF WAR!

NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 8

THE HORRORS OF WAR!

A TERRiFYING EXPERIENCE,

Destructive Cannonade at Melrose. ■■•

On Saturday afternoon the". Welling-, ton volunteer battalion «ha<f : ;a day/ out m the shape of a-shani light'; over Miramar way. The' Hereifcaungas' ledt-iu the march from Mount Gook,. followed by the Garrison, Band xfafr^ the foot, soldiers. It was a^rand^and'i impressiVe spectacle, especially ontthe' part of the mounted m'en, wiiose i horses- played up high 'jinks .along the' j tram loutc m Adelakte-road, while the trams were passing. However,^ the troops arrived at the -fighting.; groimd without mishap— the ' -mishaps <- were to . follow. Crowds of people lined along the Newtown hills--to;,see-all the excitement. But the only ex-, citement during the ficht was witnessed by half a dozen people, who were not. .looking for any. In fact, it> would have •'joaid the crowd on the hills better- (and the Athletic Park! Co., incidentally)' if they had forked out their zacks and watched the fourth-class • football match between' St. ,Jimmies and Brooklyn. It was m a certain house at -Melrose that the unlooked for excitement was gratuitously given,' m the shape of broken windows galore, besides which several . : cups . and saucers 0 of valuable • old china were irretrievably, damaged. It appears that the Defence Department had placed two cannon m- close proximity to a resiSenee. and the--consequence was that ~ with every boom of these guns the house sway-' ed visibly, everything movable'crashed to the . floor, and pandemonium.; reiffned supreme, as it did m the--'Frisco earthoualce, thouirb m a lesser degree. The occupier of the house' jn question is making a claim for damages. against, the Defence. Department, and jt: is up to them .to handr.. somely recoun the lad^ for the wreckasre and' fright sustained.