': "Being in the trenches at night is to see a . weird and ' wonderful sight," wltitea Oaptadn R, Hardie in a diaiy sent home to his father in Palmerston North. "The night is turned into day by hundreds of" flares and rockets and star shells which are sent up as soon as it gets dark. When a bombardment is in nand the shells fly red-hot overhead bursting with a terrible detonaU tion and flash around. One cam only say that hell-fire cannot be much worse, tt is really wonderful' what the liumft.ii system can stand in undergoing these nerve-raking incidents.".
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 7
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