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"THE CORMORANTS,"
1 PARK LANE.
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NO.¦yesterday walking sewly along the side
of the communication trench right up to the line. Hà hai a sack of ceke anl I looked as if he were going to stick
CRIM HUMOUR OF THE TRENCHES. in the mud with it. A hail of bullets missed him and he stopped to light a
A Very Close Quarters With The Enemy,pipe behind un aightern inch willow even then, before he very deliberately got down
Water Agency has received the fol- with his loud, lowing hotter from a member of its Lon- Talking of willow trees, I never want, don editorial .taff now serving as a Sub-o see them or poplars again in my life. A willow gave me a short sharp shock altra in the trenches
The Trenches, 12th December, Mid-two nights ago. I was scouting with might have been dioded out of my party and we went on further than we ind, alus th's little spot on the table intended. I hadn't a rifle with me and es to be the only one where no when we had crawled up to withit forty by dogs are falling fream the roof Firds of the enemy's sap (it was a fairly of the dugout, I might as well seize clear night). I suddenly saw what looked the oppertunity to write between now exactly like German erouching, down al daylight.
with levelled gun. My heart went pit. When I wrote last we were frost bound.-pat. I hastily signalled for the rife 1: ten thawed, and for the less forth the man behind me, cely to find them eight we have been the victims of tian. was cething in the magazize. To muds things pleasanter we have the
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prapies of eighteen days forer Christ- Luckily, it turned out to be a willow nely belee we get back to lillets. It stamp with a laugh levelled in our direc 1. dificult to give you an idea of what tien, That same evening, scouting out.. stody ruin here meus. Our Baes com on my own on the other side of the yawe och un caderly, jrmanent, town-like sap, I had a most horrid experience. I anti soldi mentes of cubbyholes and tren-was in a turnip field, advancing cautiously cb that when they all start to fall in because they rackle se infernally under and one don't know where one is în foot, suddenly up went one of their stur turkey it in as if one were trying to rockets which make the neighbourhood masigats a pitch dark. London in ruins. light as day for a raile mand. I topped Navigats is the word. The vi down at unes on my anterior. To my rlobal Stafī kava ordered grandolas, and horror I discovered that my nece was we are going to train the ferece mule two yards from an unburied German uf Flandern in carry bombs to the corpse. that had bin out there, since their last unsuccesful Infantry attack enemy's trenches.
What makes and a wild is that I was six weeks ago. Another and another" just grying in a brand new dug-out with rocket was up, rund it was ten minutes another ul. The right after I nowed before I could get up and leave that enflapsed altogether.arily object. However, I brought back The Sapper, who appears every night helmet and rifle as mementoes" of the to do old jobs about our lines, swore event,
In the first flush of pride in our new Chistons would be watertight. He came
in just now and sat on the door step dugott, -aral 1-christened it "The with and raving down his neck and he Cormorants," No. 1. Park Lane.
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is such a cheery soul that wo forgave chose the name as descriptive of the in him. He brings us nightly all the habitants. That is to say, we are bidh Juuests gossip of the staff: to wit: concerned to find that though formerly Item. That the Indian vision and the people of moderate appetites, life out Gezinats were do close to each other last here has oorverted us, like most people, werk that they used the same parapet into appalling gourmans. Every problem to their trench and took it in turns resolves ikot into food values. The t firm through the loop-holes. This rest panic at present is that the Christ- mas offerings of good folk at home will work they have got closer and an se purated only by sand langs. The Indians by some mischance pot. reach us in time.. ena to pass tho weary winter eating a days ago a benevolent Captain pre- ium; mot only because it is pleasant and seated us with a box of shortbread which nutritions its that they cur have a dappeared a by magic. We halved the plmital klipply of jam tin bonis.which runs with wistful cate and promptly ure all the fashion at close french parties. role postcards to everyone pro vull think of clarouring for staciss of it. 1 thur own Germans are getting closer.un's expect you to look upon this tun. Two hundred yards is about our anything but gluttony, but is course of average and are both pushing ahead rations, bread and bully beef, and the with rape, kompos jan tins will no neity of keeping out continual gold longer be thrown away here in a week and damp would I think bring it hoge. er two. "I amnweed mnyell today by pink. The are quite put out at present beruute fag ons of their piriscopes which both the Intent affival in the Company, who side is freely mulus not to let them got is straight from Sandhurst, is super. too, eustomed to the right of our dirty cormorant and can give either of us hall and stubby inces. Our men or very a' load start and win hande, down, kents už tận loop-holes and no sooner
Well, our cheery Sapper newsLonger dows a bit of German skin show itself has just warmed our frozen gloom with them it is perforuted.
the tale of the naval victory off South (Don't be alarmed at the stains on this America, a victory in Galicis and the peper. It isn't blond, but the roof is positively authentic information (for, tho beginning to doze mad instead of water.) 20th time) that the Kaiser in sick unto
The communication trénches I told· you of are a dream now. Tonight, they ar simply a river, but when we came in a few nights ago they were katedrep in a paste of this consistency of wob dough, three men had to be left behind and dug out later. You can imagine the labour of bringing up anununition and rations. The pece devils arrive absolutely worn-out; but of course, still have to do their whack of sentry go during, the might
What I object to principally about our Germans is their lack of appreciation of humour or sport. They are en dovilishly, busineseliko. A lamentablainetance occurred today. One of our mecz was up in a willow tree in the rear cutting withier. A shot, passed him and he signalled. Amis, Jeft. Then he signalled mother, right, and the third trate itim through the head. There are posing thoraclees, ut you sco come (ho christest orders about the 10 astonishing I ings. I watched a man
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under Lance Corporal Sisyphus to carry St. John's Cathedral. 100 lbs. of bully beet, nightly through u ten milo communication trench, two feet | deep in mud, only to find when he gets to the other end that he has no tin-opener and no knife or bayonet for substliute.
LIGHTER SIDE OF THE WAR.
Revising the French National Dictionary.
French writers are pointing out how the war is revising the national dictioa- ary. Fortunes are being made out of words whoso meuning qur grandfathers wouldn't even have understood. What; philippies we have all been reading nguimt "* German hegemony ""; yet in a)
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| lexicon no older than 1808 "hegemony" meant a feast of Diana. In the German dreams of world supremacy, there is little, that one would naturally clute Messrs GONSALEZ BROS with the chaste god-less."
When Pusie-journalists are not calling the Germans * les Boches "- they refer to them as les hordes teutonnes." Hordo” means an undisciplined gang. and surely "discipline" is what the German headquarter staff boust more than. anything
The war appears to have dislocated a few metaphors, One writer used this sentence the other day : The Aisne is the bar before which a guilty nation je trying to step the onrush of justice whose
sentence the Allied, armies aro about to execute. This was written by a pics turesque person who is half prose-fancier and halt poet.
This phrology of this war correspon- dents of the provincial press is some. times somewhat loose. For example) **keneral Pau arrived at X at á p.m...) and stopped several minutes at the Intel | de France, where he enjoyed a light meal, while his chauffeur poured potzal into the motor.cur and the officer who had come with him."
It is a relief to extract a little inunour out of this tragic war. A letter from a Swiss who was in Aix-la-Chapelle at the beginning of last month and is now, at Halà, is amusing. The writer in a note to a French journalist says :
*The German Government is very in genious in its efforts to keep up the spirits of the piulation. It reports the annihilation of regizovint after regizaen! daily, ad in order to freter the delusion it hus to preduen formidable convoys of French, British, and Ikelgian prisoners, Ais-la-Chapelle is the spectacular spor chown. It is the busiest milway station in the German Empire just now, The German General Stuff sent ou Lenin fonds of prisoners through this junction going East every day. You can imagine how impressive it is. You can ulso imagine how industriously the newspaper i correspondentes recoril the incident in
their despatches to Berlin, not forgetting the downeast demeanour of the captives lund, the ebetry of the German populace. The crowds are unaware that there trains are switched on to a'loopline at night, and return in triumph, the next day. The other morning a Dutchman was watching ope of them go slowly by: He saw a Belgian soldier excitedly gesticulating at an open carriage window. He was short ing: This is the twelfth time we have come through this station.***.
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