STORIES FROM TRENCHES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 August 1917, Page 5

STORIES FROM TRENCHES.

A soldier writes: Banish all fear from your mind. When you kill a German who tries to stop you,.and a second and a third one, you just give him a mechanical look to see if he is dead and then pass on. The usual reverence of death is lost on you. If you argue at all it is in this strain: “His life or mine,” and the instinct of self-prserva-tion prevails above all else. It is not callousness, it is just war." “The Germans are not fighting so well as they used to,” said a Dundee man. “They’re more ready on the ‘Kamerad’ game and never gave us a chance to get into them with the bayonet. It’s all very well for them to hang on to their machine-guns to the last second, then throw up their hands IPs kind ’o maddening.” “It went like clockwork, just as we rehearsed it behind the lines,” said a Morayshire man. “Our generals and our staffs are cleverer than the Germans. If I look back at the things I used to think were a waste of time, rehearsals and that, I can see that the whole thing has been a matter of organisation by master minds.”