SWIMMING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 3

SWIMMING.

Writing from the front a South Islander., describing the circumstances in which he was wounded while bathing, says: —'Jit was quite a. common sight," he' states, "to see* 2000 0r.3000 chaps in the water, albeit bullets were whistling overhead. Now and again a chap would be killed, but the incident would soon be forgotten and the boys would go on swimming as before. I was basking in the s".n after a swim when along came a bullet to bid me good afternoon. I. just felt as though a ton of bricks had hit me. With the assist- I ance of two pals I staggered away, and was that night taken on board the hospital ship- The German and Turkish snipers are out on their own; they can put bullets through loopholes quick and lively at 500 yards. Quite a few of our chaps havr> stuck their rifles carefully through loopholes, taken & fair sight, and have been just about to pull the trigger when an enemy bullet has sent them down with a gurgle. At times you cannot show your head half an inch above the trench."