TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11731, 22 June 1916, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

THE SOUND OF BULLETS. During the Greek war tho la to Mi Harding Davis sent home letters win on many of us remember from their admirable and vivid stylo. His description of tho sound of bullets was ally good, and at tho moment is well NN und'er n cloak of invisibility, and made one feel as though ho were the blind man in a game ot blind man's buff, where everyone tapped Dim in passing, leaving him puzzled and ignorant as to whither they had gone, and from what point they would come nest The bullets sounded like rustling silk, or like humming birds on a warm summer's day, or like the wind as it is imitated on tho stage or a theatre. Anyone "who has stood behind tho scones when a storm is progressing on tho stage know;* tho little wneel wound with silk that brushes against another piece of silk, and "which pioduces tho whistling effect of tho wind At Volest-inos, when- the faring was very heavy, it was .exactly as though someone were turning 0110 of these siK wheels, and so rapidly as to make the whistling