CABLEGRAMS.
[PUB PBKSB ASSOOIATION. — COPYBIQHT.] the projectiles: "They seemed to weep' as they sped towards us, like women who had been widowed through the deeds of evil men. They lifted up their voices in the night, and screamed as I have heard a horse scream in the quicksands. They laughed as a drunkard laughs when delirium has possession of his brain ; they howled as wolves howl through the Bnow-covered forests of Canada j and we tried to sooop holes in the earth to pnt our heads in." This sort of thing reminds one of the Morning Post man's purple passage anent the musio of bullets and the Globe's retort. The Post correspondent in describing the sounds made by various missile 3, referred to the peculiar noise made by a ricocheting Mauser bullet as being " like the coughing of a sick ghoßt." The Globe said its expert avowed it was much more akin to the groaning of a goaty worm.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11562, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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159CABLEGRAMS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11562, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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