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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 284, 15 June 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

igencies of war elsewhere obliged him 10 sail away, and almost immediately the iriege set in with redoubled fury. In the beginning or summer. 1752, 36 months from th® commencement of the investment niouldv biscuit crumbs on Gibraltar were selling at a shilling a handful, and the veriest blade of anything green had a market value; >et tho siege had nearly another year to run. Men were fast becoming animated skeletons, though they continued to show such rare fight thai the enemy dare not attempt storming tactics. By this time the latter had 20 » pieces of battering cannon ?n<l SO great mortars belching forth destruction at the heroic garrison. On the hills of Andalusia thousands of spectators daily congregated to watch what thev considered to be tie dying struggles o? the doomed defenders. Week after week passed, however, without the expected white flag being hoisted, and the Spaniards >-ere frankly nonplussed. To them it -eemed net men but devils who were defending the Rock. They themselves were making the effort of their lives, and they lacked for nothing that money or skill could ensure, but still the g:ns ot the gaunt forties; vomited defiance. At last, on the loth March. ITS."., after a s f r three years 7 months and r'"d;iv«, relief to the garrison came aiuip' in disastrous shape for tho , i-. -ny whose sreat floating batteries weie set aflame fad thousaris of "unnors perished miserably. Of the com oars'ivelv small fore? of defender i 1 had suifered the extreme p'en':lty of war, while hundreds were fi.-viid" hv the relief force lying bv I voir gi'n u in a p'.tiful state Oi ex-h-Mistion.