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A NIGHT MARCH
THE VOICE OF SILENCE.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
mes, their led borsa behind them. I
may have seen as many, Froop
daylight, but noda gre Impre
HONG TORG
with the dealing faguely enormous Mr Abrah
an inexorable force moving Miss AG Ascocera tueritably to its gas, and all controlled by Miss Appunsale
Me Geo. S Archbath Me and Mr J De power strong en terrible, behind Me J Faring them there to the blackness. And their | Urs 2. Baring Meas
-Mr-Albert. silence, except for that monotonous fr and Mes H. A Me A bind
Mr. J. Bartlett - To=
Mr C. Lith tradge, trudge, deepened the impres. Baxter
Capt. J. Baxter Mr TM La tie
·Mustér BaxtOY
a long and 1 Mrs E R. Bolillos ZNET
MeC. D. J. Ball Capt and Bira Biberg
Ladin and Macdona
J. Birbeck Capt. and n D. Birrell Macintosh H. Boek Me and Mrs
Mr and Ma Boust*** A. L. Maitland" t Mr and Mrs B. Mr 0, M. Malcolm
Braatt
Dr and Mn 0. Mr and Mrs B. Marriott
Maslin
Braddell
We have heard a good deal Intely of the singing propensities of the British soldier, and it is certainly impressive to see and hear battalions swinging past upom to the lim to the tone of "It's a long, Jong trail, or whatever the favourite marching mag of the moment may be As a rale, as any one who has been long encamped by the side of a main road just behind the line can testify Tommy does sing, sast the air of What's the use of worrying for example, has acquired for mo a clinging wistfuinem, that the literary for musical pre-chair critic would prob. bly deny it, from its association with all the thousands of my brava country. men Cockneys and yokels, mere and factory hands, who to that tune used to tramp past me la the gritty dust, or the
ML A. Calderon Head & squelching mud, whatever it might be
h&re Carpusel Me Miss Carpronelt to the battle of the Scrime; nien of whom
Miss M. Clarke Dr. and Mrs. G. so many either returned not at all or
Mrs HR Plankett-
Miss E. Pencills returned in the countless ambulances that
foto Coronel Mr A. C. Potosky passed in the reverse direction throughing, cobable wounds and, for many, HEJ.D. Courtney
Mr. All those weeks of fighting.
death. But, through the night the Eng and birs J. L. But the unseen is dre terrife than the lish soldiery marched Que silent, Mme. E. Esnault seen, silence more awe-inspiring than pausing, unwavering; to me, who thew Mr.A.C. Finney F. Res
Mr M. Garrjoin them, lavincible; the most stubborn and the least spectacular meldiery that all the history of the war has known
Presently canie tented on, but in the middle of the villy, otherwise silent and apparently deserted, I met another long column, indistinguishable from the first. This time I did not have to halt and I pamed them more quicklys bus as I left the village by one arm of a road-fork I heard again the same persistent trudge.
Capt.&M
*Mrs. Branch trudge" coming up the other arma Mra Branch's landy Mr G. MA Mclenos As I rode hame the moon was up, and Mr W.O. Browell Mr. and Mrs.
Mr and Mr E. R. Meintemb I turned off the road al cup across coun- try, so that I passed no more of the marchingmyriads, that night BMN Burns reveral times I heard on the distant roads the sound of their transport. They all knew even better then I did, that over there, ahead of them, where, the frequent flashes it the horizon, lay certain ender
any sound; all this daylight aching and singing never impressed in so deeply as did a cliance meeting, not so very long ago, with I koow not what vast body of troops, marching, marching through the darkness in utter silence.
We of the artillery knew that an assault on an unprecedented sole" was shortly to be made; for our share of the battle begins long before the infantry's; indeed, in s sense, for us, the war had been one long battle, moving now and then by a rapid crescendo to a tremendous fortissing in the middle of which the Linfantry intervened; the steady beat of our music, being never wholly silent. 30
LÖVE IN TWO CHAPTERS.
Mr. Emacis Stopford tells this story of Londed in Land and Water by the gate of a certain London house there stands a chestnut tree pershadowing the pavement. On one of the bombardment nights, with the guns still firing in the distance, the owner came out to recon- nitre in slippered Izet He becaine aware he was interrupting a love scene.
Buckland Mr. Marcaki Mr. and Mrs. J. Mr. A. R. Moulder
Yan Buzzed) - Meand
Mugli
Deano
Mr P. G. Patta Me. W. J. Pringle
Pritchard
Mr E. H. Roy Mr and Mrs. Henry Mr.D. Beichelman MeReichelman
Risch
Goald Mr.
Green
Capt-1. Y. Ball Mr and Mrs Robt
Hall W
Mr and Mrs W. Ai
Hannibal me
Capt. A. Robinson
Mr. Rodbor.""
Mr 9. H. Mr C. E
E. Seyht
Mr F.-B. Simmons: Mra-M. Slad Mr. A: W. F. Splarn Mi J. Stalker
van der
Mr G. Harper Mr A. Hicka Mr. R. F. Hobson Mr and Mrs Paul Tr
Hodgson MrW.E.Koore Mis Mr A Shelton Hooper My H. Mr L. Hope Mrs Halswif Capt and is R. Mr Tanjis Mies
Innes.
Mr and Mrs J sd-Põhildren
Mr.CP.Templeton "hompson
|heavy had čur firing boen that of certain for in the silenes of the night, girl' reo bien, Me")
essential spire parts for our guns we had voice rang out clearly:" Well, I can't none left, and on the eve of the attackexsetly say I love you, but I do really
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