TRUE TO A "TEA."

NZ Truth, Issue 605, 20 January 1917, Page 5

TRUE TO A "TEA."

Olio afternoon (luring the groat push a young Liverpool Journalist, now an artillery signaller, wiu {dickering with v c-omrado from Intense fire- m a small trench they hud made not- far from their dug-out. His comrade expresned a longing for a cup of ton. A slovo ana waiter were at hand, hut neither had an emergency nil lon of tea nnrt sugar. Not ton /wenmto after tlv vl»h wiia uttered a'strong Ilun Mhvll ilroppe^l amid a heap of Infantry radons sorno 150 ynrd« away, and a badly bent tin of tea and augar landed at thelr feot. The contonla were Intact. and_ they 'had their ten. How trie !;> the old adngre:

It's an ill shell

Blows everybody to hell,