TROOPERS' LETTERS.
j SENSATIONS UNDER FIRE. j I Gunner J. P. Macdonald of "the N.Z. j Battery, writes thus about the sensation of being under fire: — | "Pom pom and rifle fire lire unpleaj sant to be under; but a curious fact i? \ that no one feels afraid of big shells ifor a start. It is only when you have ■seen their effect that you get "dicky" lof them. When you have seen a couple of men and horses blown to pieces by one you begin to respect them, but ffor a start no one seems afraid of jthem. Pom-pom shells and rifle bulllets, on the other hand, sound so vicfious that you don't care about them {from start to finish." I Later on the writer says: "A policefman's life won't be a very happy one for a year or so, I should imag|jne. At any rate I don't reckon it worth taking on."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 24 January 1901, Page 4
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