VOLUNTEERING

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1915, Page 2

VOLUNTEERING

(To the Editor.)

Sir. In your issue of to-day appears a letter under tho aljovo heading, which I have read with surprise and disgust. Mow a man can call himself a man an<l write .such insults abount a young leilow who has risked his life tor his country passes my com prehension. One who has served a montli in the trendies must feel it hard fTo bo called a K.H.b. which I take it means dodging the fighting line and T think W.M.F. would do well to get some, proof before he rushes into print with his nhsurd accusations. W,]\r.l r . says he had better clear out of the borough, and this passage of his letter gives the returned soldier's name as surely as if he had put it in print; now if "W.M.F. has a personal grudge against Jiim -why does he not attack Tn'in like a man. not stab him in the back with his false statements, for they are false as 1 have good reason to know. As for interfering with recruiting I venture to say that such vile, insinuations as AY.M.K.'s letter contains would do more harm than is ever likely to lie done by our returned .soldier. 'Tis true that there are a lot of individunk in town who do a lot ol harm to recruiting hut they are like W..M.l'.— fireside heroes.- 1 tun. etc.. N. C. iIOI.D.VWAY. Levin, October il'Mh. 915. COXCEUM.V. V.M.I'V Sir, W..M.1 I '. had a lutKl' in yesterday's Chronicle reflecting on a returned trooper. Has W.A1.l' 1 . taken to sniping from behind a bush at men wn<> have conic back from the present war:'

.'•-s for the soldier ho refers to, I know the insinuation is utterly false. Having had an opportunity ol interviewing many of the returned soldiers I can say positively that 1 have never hoard one <il them hint that they were .sorry they had gone to the front. In a groat many instances they Lave expressed a 'wish to be able to return again to the firing line. 1 eonsidor W.M.F.'s letter wholly uncalled for, and I think his time would bo much better employed in singing patriotic songs.—l am, etc., UNION JACK.