WAR NOTES
MORE SHELLS FOR THE GUNS. London, January 16. Captain Guy Featherstone, R.F.A., of Auckland, is again at the front in France after having been some months in England recovering from his wounds received in the summer. Writing to a friend iu London, he speaks verj optimistically of the British prospects owing to the gradual increase in the supply of shells, which enableb the batteries to fire day and night without anxiety. Captain Featherstone's battery has been increased from four to six guns. "I spent Christmas Day in the trenches," he writes, "shelling the Huns. We did not allow any \funny business this year." The conditions for the men are better than last winter, but the horses are having a very bad time. Their quarters have continually to be changed, and in a single day in the present state of the weather they are up to their hocks in mud. Even in the New Zealand bush horses are not worse off than they are iu Flanders at present.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1916, Page 7
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169WAR NOTES Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1916, Page 7
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