SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13697, 29 May 1915, Page 3

SERIOUS PROBLEM.

OPINION THAT "SLACKERS SHOULD BE SHOT." LONDON, May 28. A..i. f'hsgow, the Sheriff, m convicting slack. i < on • Government work, said the only me 'hod 'of dealing with such men was immediate shooting. He regrettei he could not give greater sentences. ,

NO SLACKERS AT THE FRONT,

LONDON, March 30. The following are the concluding paragraphs m "Eye-Witness's" contnbution to-day: — If there is one thing — and it has -bo come even more noticeable during the last few weeks — which strikes those who go about among our men, whether m the trenches, m billets, or m the hospitals, it is that the .'thought uppermost m their minds is not of their own hardships and sufferings, but of the pro gross of the war m general and of the operations •on our front m particula-. The first question that a wounded than usually asks is: "How far did we get? Did we take such and such a trench or position?" He may have been maimed for life; most of his comrades may have been killed ; but these things con cern him little m comparison with the point Of whether his battalion or company accomplished the task assigned to titera.

Nothing else matters. All these' qnestions of hours of work and wages which are agitating his friends at home are utterly strange to him. He a«cepts everything, the heaviest losses to his unit as Avell as his own personal misfortunes, m. complete cheerfulness so long sb he knows that we are winning. Not that the feeling throughout the army has ever been other than one of supreme confidence m the eventual result; but there is now something' more than that. Every man feels that the Jong; dreary winter is past, and that it is no longer a auestion merely of "sticking it" m wex trenches under, a rain of high explosive from above and m the ever-present danger of a mine from underneath. He feels that the time , ior the realisation of his hopes is arriving, and that he is, m his own words, "going to get a bit of his own back."/