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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 3 January 1916, Page 2

".- An. ■officer.of a Higliland ; regiment returned wounded from ;the 'front' gave-v'a; few of his impressions dm-ing ', ,'-at r tack.- He said : si Wli£(n-tf'.-think' of it,; the thing ..that •":;most .'; :i:iii i; my: 1 memory ; was /the awf alness 1 of :-fcha"t air 'tack. ...From where,.! was at one-time I could see* the whole sweep\foi-wardj■',•:' As ; far as I -could 1 see therai was laying, line of bayonets',, hut- the : thing" was our get-up.; \V"e were wearing .gas helmets with "v the /goggle eyeeT and' proboscis sticking out like: a/ assort of blue; colour, and tftat"; : must have intensified- its' : :ldbk;:'.\-:'v::'EV.ety:.: : ,than, shouted =as lie- charged, and ■'"the ' shout comes thro ughi,:"'. th'e' : ; helmEit'' as'; a q ueev : sort: of hpise.'>:'What; the Germans must have seeriv'was all, these bristling;: bayo-_ .nets and these tei-rible masks. ISTo won'- r cjo.r 'they olelared but :as■'-;■ 'well'•-.as' they, could .from,, the front. trenches.: ;There could, have "been notliing: like it, fin the; history of :ithe : world..'; "■ After it "was- over ft was strange: to see-pur; men, ;whb,:Jn' ihe heat of*;the; fight 'Were dembiis, usirinr up %heir own' field■■.'.di*ess- : fngs,V which, they might have at; aiiy iftomeht, : for maniS''-K:!'■'■''':.■■■■■:''i■.■ ':■: /:..■■■'.■■ ■'. '■"'':' ::':■.'' absolutely ing Pbwdea';* 1 Purest,: /strongest .and CHEAPEST,' ■; ySHAKLANiyS is; ?bouud;; to; rise. .Get it :frohi your OTOcer; ■: " > : ; > :- : :