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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 31 July 1918, Page 7

Fighting is becoming safer oach day. says an English paper? Just now it 'is the- shrapnel-proof helmet which is being improved upon so as to serve thefurther purpose of -protecting the wearer's eyes and face., as well as the head. The Belgians have taken the well-known French casque and added a visor member extending well down over the face. This visor is provided' with two openings or windows, each protected by steel bars running across, •so that there is small chance of a shell splinter reachinn- the wearer's face. It will be recalled that the newly designed Swiss helmet is also provided with a riser.. As likely as not. the j visor wiU soon be a feature of most helmets. j Followed .by 31 armed Germans, an unarmed British stretcher-bearer' re- ; turned to our lines. They had insisted j upon surrendering to him' Wo had put i down a very heavy artillery barrage, and after this these men had been cut off by a "fierce machine-gun fire. Small wonder, says Mr Hamilton Fyf.. their nerve was broken. Some of them were gibbering from shell shock. They saw our stretcher-bearer, a very brave fellow, searching the battlefield for wounded. Out they came from shell holes | where they had hidden, and put their hands up. The stretcher-bearer was ! embarrassed. He had no arms. He i was not sure whether stretcher-bearers j were allowed to receive prisoners. He i shook his head and waved rliem away, j but they were not to b_ got rid or. J There was no one else in sight to whom they could surrender. Tl*i.ey had not the nerve left to face the machine-gun fire which separated them from their comrades. They followed the stretcherbearer about. He felt very uncomfortable-, quite apart __om his doubt as to the correctness of Red Cross men accepting prisoners. He did not like the feeling that 31 Germans, with their rifles, -were behind him. He made attempts io "shoo" them away, but they I clung to .lis footsteps with desp.ration, j At last h-e said, "Oh. very well, come . on, then,'* .and conducted them along. "A faithful friend is th. medicine ef life." —Proverb. The faithful friend is the unfailing friend. That aptly describes Baxter's Lu*eg Preserver. It is one you can always depend upon. When your head is all stuffed up with a cold, when your throat is sore and painful, when .that chest cough keeps you awake at night. good old Baxter's ea*_ always be relied upon to give you relief, jieep it handy. Large bottle, 2.'-. AH <_hemis'_ and I stores.—Advt. j That sleep-spoiling cough cr. n be. j'stopped by NAZOL. Take" some dvopfj lon suear. Penetrating and soothing. ' Splendid for children. 1/6 buy* SO . doses.—Advt.