TALES FROM THE TRENCHES.
Some of our Soldiers, who were within seventy yards of the German trenches, hoisted an improvised target. The Germans did the same. Both sides signalled the result of the shooting.
First Tommy. "Get down! Do you want 'em to cop yer?"
Second Tommy. "Blimy! The perishers signalled my bull a miss, and I'm just agoin' to 'op over an' tell 'em abaht it."
The following reaches us from General Headquarters abroad:—
"Army Troop Order, No. 40.—Information has been received that many Field Service postcards are arriving at the G. P. O. without any address on them. The instructions printed on the cards that nothing is to be written on them does not apply to the address. O. C.'s are requested to bring this fact to the notice of all ranks. Oct. 12, 1914."
The discipline in the Army seems to be almost too good.
"The German Press is conducting a campaign to prove that Belgium was deceived by the English, who, it is asserted, depicted the Germans as sausages; hence the people were frightened when the German troops approached."—Yorkshire Evening Press.
The Scotch, however, are even less polite, The Aberdeen Evening Express announcing boldly—
"GORILLA FIGHTING ON THE BELGIAN FRONTIER."