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Taihape Daily Times, 31 December 1917, Page 7

CHIDREN'S ITCHING SKIN BEE OINTMENT SOOTHES AND HEALS Tho moment Bee Ointment touches any itching skin, the itching stops and dealing begins. It removes all traces y£ eczema, rash, pimples, or other tormenting and unsightly eruptions which are so common with children. Leaves the skin clear and healthy. Bee Ointment is equally effective for sores, burns, red rough hands, dandruff, and piles. Bee Ointment is made from parest ingredients. It has been a good old family remedy for nearly half a century. Get a tin from your chemist and store to-day—price, eighteen pence. Generous free sample posted on application to Bee Ointment Proprietary, Bos 38S, Wellington. Write to-day. PILL-BOX FIGHTING. A RETURNED OFFICER'S EXPERIENCES An interesting story of the Passchendaele battle is related by an Aucklander who returned with the hospital ship. The preliminary operations presented an astounding example of the vast and thoroughly efficient organisation to which the Imperial army has attained. For days beforehand supplies of amunition and food were coming in, the trains of mules being sometimes half a mile long. Every detail was fully worked out, and the advance operated like machinery. The net reSult of th% efficient organisation and splendid fighting power of our men was that we attained our objective, although the Germans were actually preparing for an attack at the same time as we were. The German barrage, preceding their attack, commenced at 5.30 a.m., while ours started half an hour later. Tho attack was, therefore, a difficult one, for the Germans had massed their troops preparatory to launching their own advance, but the New Zealanders fought with irresistible determination and dash.

As evidence of the intensity of the German fire, it is said that when Lieut. A. S. Eeid attained his objective, there was only about a third of his platoon left. One entire section (including Dave Gallaher, the well-known New Zealand representative Eugby player) was simply wiped out by a single big shell. Lieut. Eeid with his men was held up by a hidden machine gun, and they took shelter in a shell hole: It was while trying to discover the whereabouts of a machine gun that Lieut. Eeid was shot through the right side of the chest. He was unable to go forward but they had attained to within a few yards of their objective—that is, the place where they had to dig in, and later he was taken back to the field dressing station. One of the remarkable things noticed was the new system of fighting indulged in by the Germans, in which the men are packed into "pill boxes" —that is, very strong ferro-conerete structures from which it is impossible to rout them without direct bombthrowing. The bomb, however, usually did the trick, especially if it was one of the new bombs, which have the effect of settting fire to everything within the radius of their explosion. While it was a fact that many of the German prisoners who were coming in in great numbers were very young and miserable looking, there were portions of the line Avhere the reverse was the case, and in these parts our soldiers had a hard battle to attain their objective.

Modern conditions favour the development of Rheumatism, and this excruciating complaint attacks young and old. All sorts of palliatives have been tried for many years great ancient remedy of the Greeks —known in this county as Rheum-alinc-Oxygena—to banish the disease completely from the system of old and young. Can we say anything more to the advertisement it »« nut possible to go into details, but we have dealt with the whole sunject freely in our booklet, "The Broken Crutch,' and every sufferer from Rheumatism, Sciatica, or kindred complaints caa have a copy post free on application. If you are a sufferer there is nothing more important than to write at once. All you have to do is to fill in the coupon, clip out, and post to us To the Dominion Rheumatic Cure Pty., Ltd., Hellaby's Buildings, P.O. Box 369 Auckland. Please _send me free book about Rheumatism mentioned in the "Daily Times," Taihape, A.D. 62. Name -... Address ,