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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1915, Page 8

A story of sniping tho snipers is told of Lieutenant Bayd Rochfort, V.C., who lias just returned from the front. Two German sharpshooters had wrought havoc among our men, and Lieutenant Rochfort and a comrade resolved to stalk them. Taking cover in a dry ditch, the-y waited .till the Germans had crawled up to their sniping post. One was an old man with a beard, and the other a thick-set, stoekily-built man. 'Til have whiskers," said Lieutenant Rochfort, "and you can take the other." Two shots rang out, and the German snipers were both dead. IP YOUR CHILD IS FRETFUL. If your child is bilious, its appetite poor and variable, if it ia fretful and "nattering," restless in its sleep, you may be sure that its stomach is out of order. A few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets will quickly set it right. Sold everywhere. A thrilling anecdote cornea from Paris. A French trench was being held under terrific lire. After many hours not a single one of the brave defenders was wounded. Then the Germans advanced to take it. Suddenly a French sergeant sprang up, Weeding, but undaunted, with the shout. "Debeut vous morsta" —Up, you dead. At this inspiring order, the mangled Frenchmen rallied from among those already expired, and actually managed to beat back the foe. But it was at the cost of all their own lives. Next evening the last of the survivors passed away.

TEAS AND DINNERS. Oho! my fine lady, So you are all frayed out again, Three teas in one afternoon, A dinner afterwards, Possibly a theatre party, Not sick, but just out of sorts, Stomach all upset, Try Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, They will right your wrongs, Is Od and 2s (id per tin. Obtainable everywhere. Johnson Bros., New Plymouth, and jtiancock, Chemist, Eltham. A costly product of the war is the censor. The Australian Government employs seventy-three war news censors at salaries averaging £SOO per annum, and nineteen intrepreters, whose pay varies from 3s an hour to £4OO a year. South Australia alone employs twenty-one censors at an annual cost of £9050. Censorship is in fact run mad. What should be rejected is often passed and that which should be passed is rejected. The Germans know this and laugh. The censor is past understanding—perhaps he sometimes doesn't comprehend,

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