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Show GAINING ON HIM. Frederick Palmer, the war correspondent, corre-spondent, in his new book tells the story of a Connaught private who on his first day in the trenches was set to digging out the dirt that had been filled fill-ed into the trench by a shell burst. Along came another shell before he was half through his task; the burst of a second knocked him over and doubled the quantity of earth before him. When he picked himself up he went to the captain and threw down his spade, saying "Captain, I can't finish that job with out help. They're gaining on me!" Toledo Mail. |