FEAR AFTER THE FIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 7

FEAR AFTER THE FIGHT.

A. LESSON IN THE WAY OF WARTho young officer —our new fighlitbm.m who a year ago know no the wavs of war than tne- Man 1 ' Moon—lias taken to it as though h AN,.,™ ol US «.k l race, mnv well be proud. . He nglits gamely, ho dies gamely. Ins men lov» and honor him. and 1.0 loves am honors it is men. Unde of b>r L l>* acres and great nenes ‘.H 'RY “ not; lie lias sunk everything m c sublime fraternity of carrying on, lmnd in hand, and arm in anu. with Ou t splendid, rollicking soul hdiH ed ovm - ly bv US as “Tommy,” am be has no fear "of whatever may heiall. . ■No fear? Well, that perhaps is not quite the way to put it (writes a special correspondent ,to the Da; y “in Northern Franco’ ) tor Ban ta. * upon tlie h-raveat and at most expected moments, and then when Le time comes to bo really and hotub y afraid, tlie demon most unaccountably vanishes, and a glorious rush of higu spirits swoojis in, noon tho wings ot which incredible deeds are wrought. “A fellow is much more alnud <” looking afraid than of bcng a un'R said a frank young officer of the Lon don Scottish to mo as wo wore talking tlds evening. “The only thing I have over shot in mv life was an old U--triover with an ancient blundei bin. !At Mess in evt the first German w came at me appeared to be about njl® fc-et high, and I wasn’t m tho least bit afraid. I got him in the chest and ■he went down with a! crash. Ihe otliei : men around him seemed to molt away, and I was left entirely alone on tin edge of a muddy .turnip field. lor a moment I felt as I should inmgnm David felt when lie slew Goliath, mu the instant after though there warn no need for it, I became full of fo - threw' my kit away, and rnivnnpnmiod jn “Since then,”- he added with a qumt Kmile “I have shot nine Germans to mv own certain knowledge, and alter : each man went down the same feolnq, of fear swept over me, and l n'ways wanted to run away.” ___