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LIFE AT THE FRONT.

Battle Stories from the Western

Theatre.

VICTORIA THEATRE.

Appearance of Ball's Vandeville Company.

The following war stories are Theatre supplied their patrons written by "Z" ;-

The Lancs.

Ah soo be t' paper that the General's given the Division a pat on t' back," said a wounded Lancashire soldier. Well, you'll me that" we're "beer_bavin" ", pretty thick time. By Goom, so

The management al the Victoria

with ospital fare laat night, the show being as interesting one from start to finish. There is no doubt that during the present programme there will be crowded houses, as there was last night, despite the fact that the weather was saything but what one could

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it wor a great do an’no mistake. | wish it. Not the least attraction We didn' know it wor such a big was Bell's Vandeville, the, olever ❤thing when we were doin' is like, little Company of artistes, who

but now Ab can look back on it, were exceptionally well-received. AN ELECTRICAL OF MARINE ENGINEER Ab can see we must ha' done Mira Ivy Aldous sang in a very is required. a Shift En»! well.

sweet voics and her dancing was gineer

the Generating "We wor pashed up to bold s exceedingly dainty. Mr. Fred Station of the HONGKONG

· bit o' t' line, like, an' at frat Keeley, in his impersonation of ELECTRICAL CO., LTD, Wan- everything wor se quiet as death the famous Charlie Chaplin, was chai.Apply in writing accom too quiet, Ah wor thinkin'. But grest, as he was also in his panied by details of experience after we'd been there shout a day inebriate's dance, this causing and copies of testimonials to

The Manager, the fan commenced! By Goom, very much amusement. Richard

HONGKONG) ch, but there wor some heavy in his comedy laugh, and Con

ELECTRIC CO., LTD., St abellin'! They wor firin' on Aston, the ragtime pianist, were Regiment "wi' about eight heavy additional factors to the evening's guas, an' they kept it cop all entertainment. The American mornin'. It wor like runnin' oop. Gazette, an ever popular film, ? ecxle.o' music-doh, ray, me, was all one could wish; the the fab-one, two, three, four, five, three part drama, “Happiness Bis, Bever, eight-right along the Beturns," was appreciated, to the trench, cne after t'other, as full, and if any more laughter reg'lar as clockwork. An' big were needed, this was amply. stuff, too! Ab, doan' how how supplied by the film, " Birds of a t'lade 'eld on, so Ab doan't, it Feather," in which Lonesome wor that beavy.

Lake and his partner farther

"You see Ah wor atretober-treated the audience to amuse- bearin' an' «' bearers had instruc: meat. From every point of view, tions t' wait a bit be'ind t' line. the programme was splendid, Now, you stay w'ere ye are,' they

"said, "an' doan't move till ye're

told An' we did'n' need no tellin' slwaye get front lice

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them.

`t' stay w'ere we wor' though there fencagh-butt lada 'ad. their worn't much cover by Company blood cop an' there was no shiftin' 'Eadquarters. There wor a bend fal of field guns between us an’ Slaughtering the Germsas. the front Fins, but there wor s **Ab nevar 586 such slaughter German spotter balloon in eky in all my life as we were doin' en away to the left an', by Goom, t' Germans that mornin'. You'va Ab believe t' man oop there 'sd see skittles go over wi' one ball ? seen gune, for they began tWell, it wor just like skitiles, only get it hot.

more so. T lads wor pettin' in a "Company Eadquarters wor sweeping fire from end to end of gettin' some of it, too, Ger- the waves, an' you'd ses ecoh mans are not what you'd call wave go over like a set of 'palin's partial like the way they fire. It-one end firet an' then the whole Wor four for the front line, three lot. God! it was awful-if it for the guns, an' & couple to spare hadn't been jait Germans. Tada for us. After a bit the guns 'ad held on all mornin' without to clear out, so they retired movir'an inch, an' then sometime be'ind us, leavin' the space clear in the afternoon we had to retire between as an front line. T' because the Back looked like firin' stopped on the places were bein' tarped.

'gune 'ad been, bat it war kept "We began to be pappered from up on the chaps in t'front line the left an we heard after that an' on t Company. It wor more the Germans'd broken in the line comfortable w'ers the guns 'ad where t' Portugeese war. So we been, so we hope into the dugoute just eesmed to swing road on that the guners 'ad been in. the right flank of the Division, Then it wor a bit more comfort ein' it sa a pivot like, an' kept able. We sat quiet-like an pepperin' the Germans all we watched the Germans shellin' the know, There was svillage place were the Compary 'ad beside the Battalion an' we wor been-westin' good shella. driven outen it, bat we went back The Sausage Strafed. at it again and took it from them "Ah thought it a bit queer how the boys brought in a German Your airmen let tha: sausage keep or so from that bit-o' fightin'.

'on spottin,' bat after a while an "It was fight, fight, fight for sirman passes overhead, 'ummin' about a week an' we lost count of like an angry woop. By Goom, the days; sometimes we'd ba Ah thought, ere goee for thai pushed outen the front line an' sausage that's been doin' the next minute the lads would be trouble! Sure enough, Ah sees back again wi' a counter-attack. that plane baxxin' round the Ab'm not sayin that we didn' get Batange like a little black midge, a few caenalties. We did. But t an' next thing is that there comes lads is the beat in the Army for a trickle o' fame from.t' ̈side o' stickin' it, an' they gave the Ger- 'balloon. Time shoote oop mans a lot more'n they got. They an' the sausage comes down, but must ha' killed thousands and it didn' do the front line say thousands o2 ́t" enemy. One grest good, for t Germans keeps on thing about our A ́my is the way bangin' away.

they gives you your grab.. All the \"Ah wor wordețin! how it time we wor fightin' the grub wsë would be with all that shellin' always up to time. Of course, it that bearera worn't kept busy, wor only" beef an’· biscuits some- bat after a bit longer we wor sent times, but me, Ab'm not com- oop to bring in some casualties.plainio, aboai. biscuits if only We were just gettin' busy when they gi'me enough. Ab can man Germane takes it into their age the biscuite fine, an' theyre' heads to ocme over st us, Ah¦ powerful susteinia". worermin' down a communication "Ia billets, of course, you get trench with a man on stretcher better grub than in the line, but an' Ah wor the rear bearer, wher that's culy natural, an'it'e mar- Ab hears a big burat o' firia, from vellous how t' grab comes cop the line. So Ah takes a look just when you want it most. T over my shoulder an', by Goom, soldierscouldn' fight so well if it they wor comin' over like t'arowd; wasn' for them chapa beʼind the éts Coop Tie'.

line.

“"Qar chepe was mowin' them "Did you ever *ear the story oʻ Town"-like oɔrn in a fielt, bating what t'Osonal heard one day. Foon as they moned one when' t Bagiment wor diggin'? wave, another comes up. Ah Well, it wor this way—we wor was keen to have a look, fed-oop wi' such a lot o' diggin' bat there was a lot o' machine- 84 we bad-diggin', diggin', gun balleta sing-gin′shont, dan ¡diggin', because we could do it gerous for chap 88 or on t'better's any body else..

Opp stretcher, so we hopped it quick,comes Culonel ť′ave a bit of a › We got 'im to v ́D ́erein' Station look round, an' this in what 'e no' we cut back ́ns quiok en wej'euze from a chap what wor usin” could. When we got back, ti piek s some purpose. Germans were still comin' over, "Io mix days the Lord made bat'adn't got our chaps from the 'Eaven an' Earth". Colonel 'eara front line yet.” Ab could see that it' chap with t* pick sing out, 'an' No Man's Land was piled up high" on sʼ seventh, day" along comes t wi' German wounded an cead, bat Loyal North Lynow, and digs the Bull they kept comin' on.

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