FRENCH WIT IN THE TRENCHES.

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13234, 4 March 1915, Page 3

FRENCH WIT IN THE TRENCHES.

In thfl trenches at - the - company of the French regiment of the line has' discovered that tho noise mado by the lieavy German shells passing over their heads is exactly that of a Paris tulio railway train cOming into a station, ■••■ ' ,' • The lieutenant and his men, famjlinr with the "Metro "from the Etoile to, Pere tachaiso, coiintod thfl shells. One, says the Telegraph correspondent, .roared':'over them. "Etpilel" sang out atrooper. Then anpthcr. u Almal" A .third. "Champs Elysees!". The fourth landed six feot off, and nearly smothered the • company with ..scattered earth and mild, though no ono was hurt. .! Silehco for a? minute. / Thon:-"i ihqughtHt psP'cre Lafihaise this time, sangfbut'a French gamin to 'the lieijtenant*''":■'; v;} : -;',\>' V-,:■,/';.'