WAR JOTTINGS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 187, 17 April 1915, Page 3

WAR JOTTINGS.

' ; "WH AT- A- LIFE,« A seaplane came ddWfi luroluiltarUy on the surface of a rapidly running river estuary the other day, and' the captain of a near-by ship, seeing t|ie machine capsize an^thfow 1 the pilot in--Ito th e water, jumped into .and rowed madiy-'to the--spot. As he peered into the muddy water there arose alongside his boat what •ho at first took to be a seal; it- was a round,’ brown object. Then it turned' towards him, showing the face of a man wearing a balaclava helmet., Aa the eyes of the man in the. water met those .of him in the boat the aviator drawled out, “What a life!”—“Naval and Military Record.”

_ A DROLL TRUCE. A rather funny thing happened In the trenches the other night There was'-a trench partly held by Germans and partly by British, with a sandbag barricade bjetwden.. In (the night it blew and rained terribly bard, and the barricade came down. On one side Aults' a British soldier and on the other a'fJerman. Instead of trying to shoot each other’s head off they quietly began to pile the sacks in position again. Pirslrthe Tommy -put up-a sack, then the German, until all was finished; then they said “Good-night” and went back to their jobs. I think it was priceless.—Letter from a lieutenant in the R.F.A.