THE SOLDIER AT REST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 24 December 1914, Page 5

THE SOLDIER AT REST.

"NO ZEST FOll KILLING." Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 23,'5.30 p.m. London, December 23. A medical correspondent says that the wounded in the hospitals avoid references. to the campaign. Their umvarlike tales and sentimental stories, which are | woven around Christ-mas and home, j rather startle the visitor, and kill his illusions about soldiers' thoughts. The soldiers are not joyful, and they slum recollection of what they have passed . through. They possess no zest for killing. A DAY OF PRAYER IN THE ARMY. Times and Sydney Sun Services, Received -23, 5.30 p.m. London, December 23. In January a day of prayer and repentance is to be observed in the army. , GERMANS FEAST WHILE BELGIANS i STARVE. j CHRISTMAS AT GHENT. I Received 23, 10.30 p.m. j Amsterdam, December 23. 1 Germany is making extensive preparations for the Christmas festivities at Ghent. Germans have requisitioned the inhabitants to provide a million cigars and a million cigarettes, and large food supplies. They have seized all the j wine cellars. | IitOGKESS OFFICIALLY REPORTED. | Received 23, 5.30 p.m. Paris, December 23. j Official.—The enemy's violent j attacks south of Noyon were repulsed. I We gained footing and made progress 1 nt lioiimeville, south of Varcnnes, and I the rest of Vancjuooia. I