OUR ARMY A HUGE MACHINE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 140, 16 February 1915, Page 7

OUR ARMY A HUGE MACHINE.

Our army fights like a hug.! machine writes a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery. Each part can bo replaced as it becomes too hot or wor.i. Our marehh;ery is not "made iu Germany ; " and the driver of the engine ?3 a very clever man. Modern warfur? is totally different from warfare of the past. We are, so to speak, down in the engine-root?. and can see nothing. The bell rings for full speed ahead or whatever is necessary, and the engine does i*.s work mechanically; sometimes a part is scrapped, but there are plenty of fresh spar? parts. Thank Heaven wo hao not yet had 'full-speed astern" sent down and I do not think there is any likelihood id I it. My boots are now part of me, and , I have not had a shave for ten clays. My hands are so black that I shall have to take at least one coat «? skin off before I can be respectable again. Out of every six nights I get two for sleep — the remainder I have to stand to the guns the whole night through, and the weather lately has been vile. 1 have been wet through for three days, and. to crown all, that night there was. a severe frost and my greatcoat this morning could stand up without one inside it.