Volunteer Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2091, 2 April 1898, Page 3

Volunteer Notes .

A CORRESPONDENT of the London Daily Telegraph at the front in India describes some of the sensations of a man fancier fite for the first timo. He im- > , JCines hinisc-’f to be in very great 'ZT danger. ,He thinks that every bullet is going, to hit him. Assuredly he will be killed in a moment. If he goes thro this ordeal once or twin . h h. g : ns to get some idea of the odds in his favor. He has heard lots of bullets and they have not hurt him. He will get safely home to his tea this evening, just as he did last time. He becomes a very much more effective fighting machine. From a military point of view the perpetuaHrontier wars in one corner or other of the Empire are of the greatest value. This fact may one of these days be proved when our soldiers are brought into contact with some peace'trained conscript army. Though the firing produces veiy little effect on the troops inosi of whom had been through the experience several times before—it was a severe trial -to the wounded, whose nerves, shattered by pain and weakness, were unable to bear the strain. The surgeon in charge told me that the poor fellows quivered shot as if iu the anticipation of hblow.