STORIES OF THE TRENCHES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 212, 16 October 1916, Page 2

STORIES OF THE TRENCHES.

Such scraps of conversation as these pray be heard. “That dug-out on the left got a ’.cle in the roof the other night. • A time-expired man who was goin’ off to Blighty next day went In there and lay down to kip. A whizzbang ’it the roof, and the poor bloke went West.” “The Germans occupied these trenches at one time; the Guards charged them, and not a man escaped. You’ll see their dug-outs ail along here.’ ’ “A sniper used to play ’ell ' this bay a month ago. ’E used U send the bullets into the trench. I: took the men some time to discover ’im. Then they got Tin. ’E was up on the top of a chimney stack in the village behind the German treno • Our artillery brought the china; down and the sniper with it.” The following is the latest company registered in New Zealand: Armour and Co., cf Australasia," Ltd. private company. Office, Christchurch. Capital, £20.000, into 4090 shares of £5 each. Subscribers, W. I. Carney, 3998; W. I. Kingdon, 1; O. T. J. Alpers, 1. Objects, to carry on the business cf meat exporters, etc.