THE "CANTERBURY TIMES."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16744, 28 December 1914, Page 5

THE "CANTERBURY TIMES."

TITTS WEEK'S ISSUE. | Last week's mail from England in- ' eluded another special budget of photographs from tho war zone for publication in. the "Canterbury Times." The pictures are of exceptional interest and portray many incidents connected with the campaign. A loading illustration will show one of the British trenches not far from tho German line. A military writer remarked recently that " the operations have now beeu resolved into a competition in excavations. . . ■ it is an army of rodents that one seen, hot an army of fighting soldiers in the popular sense. . . • The vista seems hardly more -warlike to the eye than the blasting and digging of a railway cut. . . . 1* might suggest rival villages of, beavers and prairie dogs." A perusal of • the trench picture will verify this description beyond question. Another photograph will depict the German occupation of Antwerp. The scene shows the Great Market Place, with troops and civilians gathered outside the Town Hall. The citizens are waiting to,receive passes permitting them to go in and out of the city in search of lost wives, children and relations. Other pictures will show a German armed Red Cross section, with dogs, which search out the wounded, a French field gun shattered by a bomb from a German aeroplane, Belgian refugees in Holland, German prisoners being brought into Furnes, wreckage from the British hospital ship cast up on the beach at Whitby, sturdyCanadians Toady for the front, homely Dutch women caring for homeless Belgians, sympathetic Dutch enring for a wounded British soldier <it Flushing, a chaplain pronouncing benediction on newly-enlisted Austrian recruits, German'wounded being entrained, details and names of lost Belgian children being taken in a Dutch town, British soldiers crossing the Marne River in the advance on the Aisne, Russian prisoners of war and French society ladies as Red Cross nurses. There wil> bo also ft capital selection of snapshots taken in Christchurch on Christmas Eve, during the collection and sale of goods on behalf of the children of Belgium. The "Canterbury Times" will bo on sale locally to-morrow.