COLDSTREAM'S REVENGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15807, 2 January 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

COLDSTREAM'S REVENGE.

THEN HE FELT BETTER. Private T. Smithsox, of the 3rd ColdBtreams, says:—"l got 'kid out.' but just before the shrapnel got me in the ankle and arm I had a narrow escape. A shell burst right over a chum a few feet away and blew him to bits. I couldn't go any further, but, fortunately, there was a heap of manure in one of t|ie fields, and I got cover behind that, and I think that soon I was the only man left alive in that place. There was a man lying near me, and he was badly hurt. He asked for some water, and I threw him my bottle, but before he could pick it up another shrapnel finis* ed him. For a long time there was nobody moving near me, but (.be shells were bursting all j*ound. After a while I got to need a drink badly, but I couldn't crawl to where my bottle was lying. "After an hour or so a German patrol crime up, and I determined I was going to have a. drink no matter what happened, and as they passed I epoke and signed to them to "throw my bottle over. But they only laughed, and kicked it further away. I 'saw red' then, and I was going to plug some of them for that even if they plugged me afterwards. I waited till they were about four or five hundred yards away, and couldn't get hack too 60011, and though .1 knew if anything went •wrong with the gun after I fired the first shot it would likely be all up wit.i me, I risked it. My first shot brought down one of them, and the other three .'hopped down on the ground. I simply ivaited till they sot up and I got one after the ether. 1 don'*, know whether I killed any of them, but." he added with a grim laugh, "as I hit them all I knew tie chap who kicked the water-bottle had ,got something for his trouble, and I felt better after that."