THE NEWSBOY'S CRY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12541, 12 May 1915, Page 2

THE NEWSBOY'S CRY.

I "Camclots"—in wsboys—are not supposed to cry anything in Raids nowj adays.—still *!e-*s anything false. So. | when Edouatd B> inn r. on January 10 I last, ran Irantieally down the Rue | Petits-Carreaux, proclaiming with a voice of rusty b"ass the "arrest of 31. i Point-arc." ho was very promptly ar- : rested. He was brought before the .second PanVian court-martial. His defence was textually this: "1 was a little hit -parti' (on), and I cried out 'Arrest of 31. Potneare' as I should have cried anything else. It was only to sell my paper." The Government Commissary then pointed out to Edonard how wrong it was to call out such things, especially at a time when public opinion was "excitable." Kdouard acknowledged with humility that, "it was idiotic." "In any case." lie added pathetically, "it diil me no good. I only sold one copy." The arrest of the President de la Republiqif only worth, one copy! For false arresting 31. Point-are. Edonard was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. ' LUCKY 13. In a letter headed "Somewhere Else in France or Belgium," nu Edinburgh private in the Scots Guards says:— "Are you superstitious? How is this for unlucky, 13? Thirteen men were taken from the 13th platoon to go on a. listening post, otherwise certain death. We were on "26 hours, that is twice 13, and the day was Saturday, the 13th. Tin- strange thing is we are the first party that has come back complete. YVo did not even get anyone wounded. As the "post" is situated between 'four lines of German and British trenches, you can imagine- how dangerous it is. Of course I was.one of the 'unlucky' 13, and belong to the 13t!i platoon. Last week a board appeared above the Gorman trenches with the words, 'Don't waste your ammunition on us; keep it for the Prussians,' written on it. When 1 was on the 'listening' post I heard some of the Germans singing quite happily. They even swear at each other in English."