FILLED WITH BULLETS.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

FILLED WITH BULLETS.

. A humorous bit, oil rent in British publications, describes the di.-gu.-ted comment ol a loimnv wvll filled with Ceiman lead that "ed orti-r been took up to the munitions depot, stead of bein' shoved into a "orspital." The same remark might have been made by Robert- Kirton. They took seven out of twenty-eight bullets out of him. and did what they could to repair a body minus seven ribs shot away by a full volley from a rapid-tne gun. Kirton also suffered a serious injuiv to his .-pine, and it is only with the aid of a

steel jacket that lie is now able to walk erect. He tells bis remarkable .-tory in the New York "Globe":

"I am an expert automobile num. and this was the reason I was assigned to motor-cycle v.ork. I carried despati lies from the headquarters near llazebruck to the lines five miles away I>y loads which led straight through to the (iernian front. Across some of these trenches had been dug. while others had only been mined to complete the unbroken lines of defence in order that they might later lie u.-cd for an advance. "It was on the one road with which I was not familiar that 1 hud my misfortune. "At a speed of nearly forty miles an hour. I &ped down it one morning, keeping a sharp look-out for our outposts. They must have all been asleep, for 1 flashed by our lines without a sign to indicate the danger into which I was plunging. I had gone nearly an eighth ofmile beyond them, when suddenly 1 saw a row of heads pop up out of the iriound. "The spiked helmets told me instantly what had happened, even had a ma< hiue gun not beg in to crackle and spit at me. I was able to bring my machine t > a .-top. turn, and start back again l.eioiv they got me. Even then I did not thin!; 1 v/as seriously injured, lor 1 ft It only little shaip pain;-:, as thouuli some <iii• • were jabbing hot ueedles into me. Suddenly everytuing went given hemic mv ev-.f. and I lost control of ins machiijp and plunged into a ditch. "Before I lost consciousness 1 reman-