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PIAVE PATROL BETS.

PRISONER SNATCHING,

Every evening after dark small parties of Englishmen proceed across the Piave with the utmost assurance and move about on the 300-yard breadth of foreshore in front of the Austrian trenches (writes G. Ward Price). They keep a jealous watch for the feast display of enemy activity and anap up his unfortunate outposts so remorselessly that the discouraged. Aus trian now keeps them all at home and interfores with the trespassers who nightly take the air in their front garden only, by occasionally firing at them from the distant security of a sandbagged parapet

British officera bad reached the stage of laying bets at mess that they would bring back a prisoner from across the Pinvo that night. One officer muda special hobby of this kind of enterprises. He would go across and big Austrians single- handed. He is a big man and was once for a short while a prisoner in Germany, whence, with characteristic energy, he escaped. Mau or rifle,' were the terms of his wagers-man if he would come quietly; the rifle if he preferred to resist and remain permanently where he was.

When this offer had won his bets for three nights running the Austrians began Lo sce red. To have one's sentries evaded was bad enough; to have them kidnapped was unbearable. So they turned out a party 200 strong to lie in wait for this sentry-snatching Englishman, Fortunately next night it was the British officer's turn to take patrol with him over the river, and he crossed with 14 men.

They prowled around for a while in the darkness and eventually ran right into the Austrian Committeo of Public Safety, grinding their teeth with impatience to kill or capture the ravishers of their out- post line. A hand-to-hand fight started at once, and its issue was extraordinary. Against odds of 200 to 14 the whole of the British patrol got away without a single casualty, fighting their way back to the beach and pushing off in their boat, though they were at such close quarters. that the officer knocked down several Austrians with his fista and the men were. still struggling with the enemy when they were up to their knees in water.

BOMBING

AN ACTUAL EXPERIENCE.

[BY

NIGHT-HAWK.”.

We left our aerodrome about half-past cleven. The moon was in the first quar- ter and visibility was rather "poor." A dank, heavy rist hung over the ground. We followed a winding course for nearly thirty miles, s

HONGKONG WAR

BONDS DRAWING

PRIZES.

The sale of tickets has proceeded so satisfactorily that the Committee. Is now

to indicate a provisional allocation of the 3 biz prizes and the- 100 smaller prizes,

The prizes given below are, as already advised, subject to the amount available for distribution being- the sum of $500.000.

In this event :~~

WAR CHARITIES WILL RECEIVE Jat prize 2nd prize

Approximately.

$125,000

50.200

prize

600

2 prizes i

$10,000

each

prizes

(approx.).

20.000

$7,500

each

-15.000

prizes

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each.

10,000

prizes

$2,500

7 prizes

5,000

$2,000

each

6 prizes

$1,000

14.000

each

10 prizes

6,000

$700

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28000

15 prizes.

8400

each

15 prizas

6,000

8300

each

24 prizes

of

8200 each $100 each

4,500

1,500

$500,000

16 prizes

100 prizes

The closing date for sale of tickets is 12th June and the number of tickets now available for sale is rapidly becoming less, therefore if you have not bought all the tickets you require it is advisable to hurry up and tell your friends to do likewise.

TICKETS $5.00 each.

We could see for lights-which are an ON SALE AT ALL STORES, CLUBS, HOTELS, BANKS, Etc.

airman's best guides when flying by night. After about fifty minutes flying we reached a famous landmark just about a mile behind the line. This has often been a beacon of hope to many a wander. ing aviator at night returning from como raid into Hunland.

Hare we switched off our headlights and a minute or so later crossed the lines in darkness at a height of about 3,000ft.

Below us we could see the spurts of ritle and machine-gun fire, the firing of batteries, the bursts the s

and grenades, long lines of coloured Véroy lights stretching away north and south as far as tho eye could reach. It was amazing to think that down there, 3.0001. and more beneath us, tone of thousands of human beings in trenches and saps and dug-outs were busily engaged in the greatest game of war.

An artillery strafe" was on at the time, and it was obvious that the steady drone of our engine was not noticed in the greater noise of the guns. We few over the German lines without having a shot fired at us.

I was flying with one of the best pilots in the squadron- keen boy from a bank in Toronto, half-Irish, half-Canadian. Our target that night was "a railway station and some important goods sidings about 40 miles behind the German lines -a strategic centre and a vital point on their lines of communication

Our compasses were due east. The wind at 3,000ft, was just over 50 miles an hour, and it was dead against us..

We had been flying over Hunland for nearly three-quarters of an hour when wo saw our target. Two terrific bursts of flames told us that one of our

OWD machines had already reached it and had, as we say in night bombing squad- rons,

laid ite

eggs. Immediately the gen barrage opened

and a barrage comprised of Archie machine guns and what we call "faming- unions. We worked into the barrage, dropped our bombs, and then did a vertical bank, side-slipping down the beam of a gearchlight which had managed to pick us up. Once in the friendly darkness again we headed for home as Last as we could god us coming back

The wind was behind We made good progress until just before we regained the British lines our engine

to knock badly, hig beg we've been bit shouted my pilet through the telephone which connects our sents, I think it's a machine-gun bullet through our radiator. All the water has ran out. The engine red-hot We'll have to come down or we'll catch on fire L'll try and make the lines on half- throttle. You get the parachute flare ready and also your Vérey pistol.d carried out his instructions and cleared my office" for action that is

I were got the gun to one side so that if thrown out it would not hit me.All this time we were losing height and the engine was spitting and spring

and spluttering like 1 Manx cut

We crossed the lines at about 300ft up. Then suddenly the engine cut out alto gether and the propeller stopped.

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Down we came almost in a nose-dive. The pilot turned her into the wind, Loomed over the remains of a sugar refinery, and dropped the bus änto a confusion of shell-holes, ditches and trenchesThe under carriage was swept off altogether, and we found ourselves. unhurt once more on the ground in the British Epport lines.

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