COOLNESS UNDER FIRE.
EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCES.
''Times & Sydney Sun Set vices."
(Received Last Night, 5.40 o'clock A LONDON, August 81.
A Zouave officer tells extraordinary instances of coolness of the men under shell fire. "Wo were entrenched," he says, "on a sort of spur. Amid a tornado of shot and shell. I re-
peatedly had to order tlie men to bo prudonfc. They stood up and chaffed one another in tho trendies One man calmly slept through the racket. When wo evacuated the position, we had to arouse him."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 September 1914, Page 5
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