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. Sham heroics do not get much quarter frm Mr. Harry Gullett, the Australian journalist who recently returned from the western front. Here is a quotation Jrom the report of one of his Sydney lectures :— . "If," said he, "a man tells you he J3 not afraid of shell-fire, you can bet your hat on it he's a liar." He had seen men who had boasted in this way; they had all become nervy under shellfire. He was motoring with a friend one day in Ypres when shells came flying, in, all directions. His friend was one of the most famous big-game shooters of India; his renown was shown by a record of about sixty tigers. Under a hot rifle fire he used to talk with complete indifference. As' they motored through the streets of the town their progress was stopped at different points by- new heaps of debris. -Presently a shell .bm'st within a few yards of them, and dust and gravel flew all around them. The lecturer ducked to the bottom of the car. "When I rose," said he, "I looked round for my friend. He was lying on the floor of the.car with his head wrapped up." What surprised Mr. Gullett most was that a hostile German was never seen. He had been over a year at the front, and during all that, time he had failed to see one. During a visit to a French general, he saw a dozen or so of prisoners brought in. Along sections of the French line this could be done.

"You cmi go out and bag a dozen," said the lecturer, "as you would go out, and shoot lialf a. doaeu brace oi birds.."-