HYMN-SINGING AND FIGHTING

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 7 October 1915, Page 2

HYMN-SINGING AND FIGHTING

Tlie ptory whicih an officer of the fulfil Rifles tells .hi the “Morning Pcs';’ 'H his men going into attack on the '‘i’ll lust, singing “There is a Green F 7 :1I Far Away” is only one of many similar records. Needless to say (comments the “Pali Mall GaacttP’) the fighting that followed was on the higher f plarle cf FpPish courage: on this occasion, too, .it had the deadliest consequences for the enemy. The point cf the story lies in its offering one further proof of the fact that the comic singing conception cf cur soldiers at the front becomes lees and less a complete one as the days go by. ANNOYING THE GERMANS. The Brussels street boys have f mad a new method of annoying the German soldiers. They carry scissors rr the r sleeves and when they get close o a German soldier in a crowd t.h j cut off the leather knot of his swct 1 £ nd carry it away as a trocar. /, boy of fifteen has just been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for having boasted that he had secured 54 of these knots. A Belgian banker is said to have egered £6O to anyone Wjio .will reliev e General von Bissing of his sword knot. The knots are generally sold for the benefit cf the Belgian Cross, and they bring higher prices than any other trophies.