London in War Time

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 November 1915, Page 3

London in War Time

-4 ~- The following excerpts an; from a letter written by a resilient ol' Bromley, Kent, England, to a relative in Levin:— "You would be surprised if you could 600 London during the war: Here it not for the payers, restriction.* on lighting, an occasional recruiting day, and the prominence of khaJri, one would never .know we 'worn at Avar. The working man is having fciie time ol Ins life—making big money and spending it again owing to a general rise in the price of all household goods of at leasu 2-5 per cent. Theatres, and picture palaces are fairly busy, and all seen* very prosperous. An occasional Ze}»» pelin comes over between 11 and o'clock at night, drops a few bombs (explosive and incendiary) that kill and injure a tow people, does a little damage by burning and destroying a building here and there, •which from a military point of view amounts to n matter of no importance. A severe fitorm of shot and shell follows for about "twenty minutes and then all is calm. Tins is how much London is feeling the war, and I am sorry to think that the civilian, generally speaking, does not yet realize -what this war weans—a fight for our very existence. . . . . The- sooner we get a move on and take off our kid gloves and fight tke German at his own game the sooner will the war be over and the country saved'from financial ruin. . . If we arc to muddle through ae we have so far done: well, the whole -A the world will be plunged into hopcltvss bankruptcy, andi then it "will take years and years to quell the revolutions that •must, and always have, lollowed Avar. •Wβ want a leader, which so far this war has failed to unearth. . . . We hare the pluck aiid we have the men, Fut a weak Government. . . Had we organized last August tAvelve months conclusive victory would have "been ours in.November. \Ve are about to wake up from a long deep and possibly get on with it." Referring to the doctors tho letter eays:—"The doctors certainly are showing themselves in ■α-most wonderful HgEt. The hospital work that is being done for the womuled in thin country is marvellous, and would startle a medico of a quarter of a century ago." •