WAR NOTES.
A 1-RANK LETTEK. ■ A young officer of the Army Service Corps contrasts ">'"<• actual conditions of ! war with the pictures he had formed during jieave time. He says: "I had my first experience of shell lire on .Monday last. One. burst practically at my horses's heels as I was gal- ' lopn:;; ,icrovi an open spar ■. I. was glad ' when it was over, as they sent six into myself and my two waggons within forty f five second*.
"I'm sorry iu hear you haw aii.ui- ' women of .England HiiH(i) t, in.-:;: li.-iiv. ' "Th-.! pcopb here eiuijiot, do enough 'Tor v.iii. Ineideiit:illy, I liroujjht in a 'spy inys.'lf aliont two \><ji-Ic-i .lie 'was in a most wreiiclied funk, am! I 'felt a perfeeti sv.ine for having to keep 'a revolve;" on him tlk> whole time. ' "I -.nil ipariered in a wry eoinfovtalile ' farmhouse. I" shall he utterly s;.oilt for ' sleeping with my fecit in a ditch am! my head on my cap, as we did almost 'every time we halted during the first j" three weeks. J "I used to wonder what active service |MHMrißrijjM^uL^|^^^u^M^i-e\v
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 8 December 1914, Page 6
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184WAR NOTES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 8 December 1914, Page 6
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