STORIES FROM THE FRONT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

STORIES FROM THE FRONT.

IN THE CATACOMBS.

[ "I went down into some cellars at Mechlin, and there saw the most uncanny scene that I have witnessed during these ( eventful weeks. The underground pasI sages extended in every direction, and . everywhere, on the earthern floors and _ i along the walls oozing with moisture, I ' [ perceived through the darkness the ( 'shadows of about '.400 old men and women, , | stretched on mattresses, shading in all .'their limbs- They stared at me in a . frenzy of terror. In vain did I try to . lf.issure them. They only asked : 'Are they coming, are they here, are tiicv com- , ; ing to kill us?' As I passed along they j | gazed at me, even as the ghosts in hell. . looked up at the shade of Dante in the . circles of the Inferno."—Dr. Sarolea, in [ I the London Daily Chronicle. i An Airman's Grave. [ ' " Last week in Belgium I saw a wrecked , British aeroplane, and beside it the crave of the aviator. . . At the head of the grave the Germans had put a wooden ' foss, on which thev had written ' Herr i F!i»r, August 22. 1914.' The Belgians i had <were! the grave with flowers. It s : " on the left-hand side of the road as • .no walks south from Enghien to Ath in .1 pi-it- or- hud, near a very old red brick ■''"-•'' »''•'■ •■' "qua re tower."— Richard Harding Davis. :ri the Ixmdon Daily Tele- ;-'•<!»•' „ : At Nainur. S I ~ , • In" awful sound of the shells ap>i proa-lanir. the breeching, deafening crash' n as they burst, proceed an effect upon me i it nh.rl, has or.lv completely shown itself I i since mv return to civilisation Within' >■ a few yards of that inferno, after the first a Mots. I fel- cool and indifferent; to-dav -i the mere noise of a motor-car makes me ■ ]umpw,,l l fnght. -(Gorges I,e Bane, in V-. . the Daily tiraphir. r, | i<' A Dead Man's Charge. ~. > "I saw a ghastly affair on Tuesday. " A „ Carman rivalry division was pursuing our 1( , retiring mf-intry when we were let loose |, on them- hen they saw us coming they |e turned and tied, at least all but one. who s, came rushing straight at us with his lance „, at the charge. I caught hold of bis )e horse, which was half mad with terror a and mv chum was just going to run the' |j rider through when he noticed the awful e- , glaze in his eyes and we saw that the le poor devil was dead."— British trooper, in the Daily Mail. ' '