HUNS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3279, 29 June 1917, Page 3

HUNS.

PERILS OF BRITISH ADVANCE. FULMINATE OF MERCURY JN DEAD CAT. "The old Hun ras left a line lot of traps in all the towns here," writes an officer to his mother at JJathurst, N.S.W

"Many of the wells explode when wo let down the bucket. A rum ,jar was found which blew up whoever drew the cork. A loose board lying in the doorway of a billet was picked up, but it had a wire tacked on its m.dcrsido- and so set oif a mine, The briequets of such coal as the Germans abandoned have many of them a bomb which goes oft' in the. stove. In one room sonio ladies' undies wore hanging on a string. One of our young men took it down; but, alas! ho released a small weight, and caused the room to blow up. The heaps of bricks and debris lying in the street often have mines which blow up the clearing parties, and a dead cat had some fuiminatc of mercury inside it. Souvenirs like those eagle helmets often have a nicely-balanced bomb in 'em, so you see life is yuite interesting. Every time one trips on a wire or treads on a loose hoard a very strange feeling comesj and, of course, loose boards are everywhere in the halfdtjvolishecl houses."