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STORY.

5. yarda and several

dorted about in front of tha DAIRY FARM NEWS:

wood. I got one of the camos #fi god halmsta sa s souvenir,

it belonged to a Pranciao guardaman, a huge, strappinz fellow, who had been his jast† below the nose and bad dropped.j

right over his gun. I noticed that CHEESE! CHEESE!! ⠀⠀ ⠀CHEESE!!!

several of these follows had in

their pockets armlets with the

red aroes on them, like theas the Adds variety to your diet and is healthful food."

doctors wear. I saw one fellow

who actually had one on but

evidently our Tommies Fnow too

well that it was a road to avoid AMERICAN CHEESE.

being abot stand bad aniped him.

I got back to our cerodrome and

leis dead-best as I hadn't had

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sad it was abod 19 when I

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got

I had anther similar (b to

do, go co and fetch a fellow COULOMMIER

who had crashed in the line in

the lina in front of Legnicourt. I

went up as far as Lagnicourt in

a car. The Hoa was shelling

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terek cover until things quieten- jed down a sit, I got hold of a Welsh Gasrdsman who showed my the way up to the Gaard's Divisional Headquarters where I

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swfally kind and took me and my driver inia bis dag out for shelter. They were quartered in an old Han Army Corps Headquarters. It was the getperfect) thing in onderground residences that I have ever seen. Exch officer had & 'ebell-proof office about 5 feet below the grcond where be worked when the shell ing was not too heavy. Leading from that there was a paɛssge the car and we got a few bits down about 30 feet to a dag out through the hood. Just then I which consisted of a bedroom now of our balloons brought and sitting room. fotbe betroom lown and found out later that it wes a proper bed, a nice little) was the next one to B. %. Ha wardrobe, a chest of drawers other articles. All the Below we give an extract from got out in bis parachute all right, and a letter which the Hon. Mr. W.

It was a Ban balloon that faraiture of polished oak Chatham and Hre. Chatham potted our car and renged and muitable for any private received recently from the battery on to it. We turned bouse. Beside each bad wse a youngest of their three eons, and rusbed back into Monchy and table with sa: electric reading: of whom are Liraten als in the out the car behind the race cf a lamp on it. In the sitting-room Royal Air Force The letter toute and the Bans etted patas a nice essy-chair, an electric which is dated 25h September, sing wall shelle rund it. Istove and every modern conveni contains some ipformation which started on foot then and walked once. Talephones were fitted in will no doubt be of interest to sbout a mile ap towards the line sach bedroom and office.

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stell-aboler, trenches We stayed down in the IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS ad barbed wire,the conatry is bedroom till fes time and then pathetic sight, just a barren went up to the mess-room. It wildernese, gutted from stem to was about 20 feet below the to have a nasty ersab no the term There wasn't much shell-ground, with shafia-let-down-to serodrome owing chief to ang going on from the Hane,-I ensure lo's of fzerb sir. The nervous breakdown in the sir, expect they were too busy getting welle were panelled with osk, and I think. I had hardly recovered their guna back We. were at it there were vases in which they bad from the fete of the previous strong and the ebells were ereck. had flowere. All the table linen crash when I came down jestling overhead, evers to the really good etcf Genera! bebind fas Toe bear B. % minute.

Fielding had tes with me, balloon at Neville S. Vanst, I found a corporal who directed bad had the nearest ebave " that between Arrae and Bethuneme to Brigade Headquarters, afternoon that he had bad in bis The 0. 0. told me that my where I found the Brigadier 3 years in France; a shell had HONGKONG SKETCH CLUB. nerves weren't nearly good comfortably settledhin an old Han pilobed right in the doorsy of enough to stand the strain of dag. at about 100 fest below the his cffe where he was sitting, scout work so he adviced me to ground. He told me exactly but it didn't explode. They dag trynigbflying as it is a steadier where the machine was, so it out and found it was a 8 2 in. kind of job and not nearly eo straggled on, passing a stranded howitzer shell. We had a jolly He recommended me tank which had been his rather good tes, hot tosat (battered) for a course in it and I osme back badly. I at last ran into a and teas out of a Obins tes pct and bere about 10 days ago to be Chaplain who, was out on the China tea-cape, all of which had search for dead. I passed quite belonged to the Han about 3 As for Locidents, I've been on a lot on my way up and stack days before. They had evidently the go for two years now sad, their rifles in the ground upright had to move in a huge harry. during that time, I've been down by their eides to call the attention General Fielding said that be twice on fire, oraebed into a tree of the burial parties to them. believed that the Kaiser had when doing a hundred miles an The padre took me slong to been s guest there at ecme time hour, been lost at sea, lost in siz-Saw Wood where the machine which accounted for its splen fog and crashed into a railway was in search of was and we dour, or that he was expected bank, crashed at T..

found it after some time, it there to view & big battle year ago last Jacusry, besides was poor Basbary and we carried which they contemplated having baving many forced leadings him down to's bollow where they if we hadn't upset their plans, IDITIONS of the letting by Publie lic Auction on which I've been lucky enough were starting & new cemetery might mention that there were Auction Sale, to be held on WEDNESDAY 11th December, to get

| Monday, the 16th December, 1918, Sand arranged for his grave to be quite a few signs of women having at 3 pm, at the Offices of the wi:b. Bway I've had my fair share of ill-dar.

been present in the living quarters Public Works Department, by lack scoïmpanied with good läck All this ground bad been won the Ean is cothing if be ien's Order of His Excellency the in so far that I am still alive! Ioale a few hours before, so the thorough! The amazing part Officer Administering the Gov- expect to be going back to France padre and I reosomnitred the old was that he left no wine the ernment, of One Lot of Crown in shant 6 weeks sa a night-Ban paritions. They seem to wine cellar only contained sods Land bombing pilot-l'a looking for have held their line at that water and emply cases of French Colony of "Hongkong,

a term of 75 years, with the ward to it as it is quite a good job. point with mashine-gunners and Germen winse,

In the evening the shelling option of renewal at a Crown I get fits of nervousness rally who were installed in sbell-

the fired by wood lessened a bit so we found car Hent to be brought on by poor sleeping holes just inside the which is the result of witnessing (ar rather what was once way up to the place where the Surveyor of His Majesty the other people's crashes and think word but was then just a mass machine was, only to find that it King, for one further term of 75 ing about them too much, I fancy. of stamps and fallen branches), wam't from our squadron at all. We had most appalling fuck while The gagnere had camorfisged searched round a bit but PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. I was with quadron. We lost steel balmsts on and even the couldn't find any sigo of one of We're never

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10 fellows in a week, 6 of whom shoulders of their costs were our machines. were killed for a certainty. A camonfiiged. They evidently heard anything more of the follow for the

no one knows yet stayed in their positions till the went in search of from that day what their fate was,

last minute; you could see whers to this. I expect be was brought

other

was.

I had the very morbid job of they had taken off their costs and down the other side of the line going up into the line to identify equipment and rolled up their and was made prisoner if he was one of our pulose, a Cept. Banbary, aleeves and got down to it, ready1 saw B... just before I left

still alive. who had been sho' down in flames to make dash for their lives im no-man's land but we advanced when the time came and France,he was down charging at that part of the line and his then had rushed d

his wireless instruments 8 1 body and machine were found. I and left their guns and eighbouring squadron. He had fwas possible, clothes and everything behind, been on the go for 3 days and fer. We want

Not Sunday of them got very far sights and looked very fagved. Cambras Boad, they part to have waited on a just arms Inkos, outr

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