In publishing this our second volume we have to announce at the same time that it is the last. It will be noticed that there are only six numbers in this volume. This is not our fault, but must be attributed to a craze for fighting which seems to have seized the " red hat’s in 1917. This battle business in large doses is not conducive to the steady production of a trench journal and often it became a case of giving up either the paper or the war for a spell.
We chose to give up the paper, more, perhaps, because we had no choice in the matter. War nowadays seems to take up so much more of one's time than formerly. We used to think in 1915-16 that we had reached its limit in frightfulness, but war up to mid-16 was a Sunday-school picnic compared with what it is today.
Also movement is so much more rapid nowadays (both ways) that it was becoming a serious problem to transport a 3-ton press and type about, as so much lorry room is needed now for well, other purposes. The subscribers' list makes interesting reading, containing as it does almost every well-known name for the war. The Censor has seldom interfered with us, and when he has taken exception to something it has afforded us quite a lot of amusement in trying to find out why?
