"THE CANTERBURY TIMES."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17038, 13 December 1915, Page 3

"THE CANTERBURY TIMES."

♦ J THIS WEEK'S WAR ILLUSTRA- J TIONS. j ] Photographs of actual fighting in * ho field of war are difficult to obtain, j ■> or many obvious reasons, but now md again snapshots are secured from i :ho trenches. Quite a number of s >hotographers are known to have been ( rilled or wounded in attempting to calco pictures in the da.nger zone. One v if these enterprising " snapsliotters " ucceedrd, at a great risk, in soom-ing . photograph of the British attack on ~ ho Hohenzollern redoubt, a formidable r Jenuan defensive, position in the v phere of operations against Lens. This t ieture. which will ho renroduoed ill tho f

'•Canterbury Times tli:s week shows successive lines of trenches occupied by the British in the advance, while in front of those are seem troops attacking tho Germans, and furthoi forward, rising from the earth and roll : ng along, is seen the ga* cloud projected from tho, British j>o:-i----tiV.n. It was in this operation that Britain inad'e its first use of gas, thus paying the Germans back in their own coin, with this exception, that the I British gns renders a person incapable j of action for a time and does no pqrmaj nent harm. Two pages of the illustrn- ! tions will )>e given to portraying scenes in connection with the operations in Serbia. The pictures deal with variolic j incidents of tho campaign in that dis- ' tressed country, and will prove most • interesting. There will be snapshots from'Gallipcli and from practically all part<s of tho war zone, besides a photo- ,' graph of Nurse Cavell, whom the Gerj mans killed, one of Corporal Bassett, i tho New Zealnnder who was awarded the V.C for gallantry in the operations on Gallipoli, and a number portraying Dominion troops mentioned | in casualty lists from the Dardanelles. i There, will a!«o btj photographs of the candidates for the Pleasant. Point (South Canterbury) Queen of the Carnival ton vu anient, and one showing tliQ two beds which have lvsen placed in the Kumara Hospital and dedicated to tho memory of Nurse? H. K. Tsdell anil Mabel Jninicson, who were lost in the Marquette. As an evidence of the popularity of the " Canterbury Time" as a household weekly magazine the following unsolicited testimony from a PahnerMtoi: Ncj'ili subscriber to the editor is reproduced as reflecting general opinion as to the value of the journal:-"' ... I would like io tell you that we have subscribed to the "Canterbury Times' for sixteen years and have always welcomed each week's number and enjoyed its perusal. The. ladies' column is particularly interesting and is keenly read by our women folk, and the excellent illustrations and general news are much appreciated." The "Canterbury Times" will be on sale locally to-morrow, from noon, a usual. |