Some of the tales of minor events on the long drawn-out fight on the Western front are positively—delightful as showing the resource of the Allied fighters, and the wonderful touch of humour associated with them. One of the best of such stories, given below, comes from a letter written by a private serving with a gun battery. He says:—"During a bombing strafe" at a German mp, somehow the fuses of our bombs wore a little damp, and hardly a bomb exploded at all. But the Grmans re-lit the fuses and began to throw the bombs back. fatty kilograms of dynamite, eight of ecrasite and different kinds of detonators, While there may be some excuse for keeping dynamite and ecrasite as household pets, the same cannot be said to apply to the arms, and, if for no other reason, the apprehension of the enemy consuls was quite justified in that having no longer their usual func-to perform, it was necessary to keep them from finding that employment which usually comes the way of idle hands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.