Extracts from an Officer's Letters Home

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 December 1915, Page 3

Extracts from an Officer's Letters Home

yUALII i 01 THE I'KENUi liEEit, / "1 was in one oi tile large towns • tiie other day. Thy pubs are open only irom 11 to 1, and irom (3 to S, and as the weather is hot just now, 3 they 1 airly swarm with soldiers, and thirsty crowds surge in 'the streets ami about the square.- J?o spirits are. sold 6u the choice fliU from Deer to wine .and irom wine to champagne at o francs a bottle. In wauv of the lettens Jiome the weakness of the /beer is commented on," several frankly declare their dislike for it,, and one man in a very 'sombre vein could find no other words sufficiently expressive ol disgust than to state. 'J could drink 50 gallons of it and hardly have the feeling one bottle oi the good home stuff gives me." "It makes me ill nowadays to read the Times. Xorthcfille certainly has played the devil with it; the editorials are no better English now than any other paper, and it squeals and wails just like a whipped puppy." "1 would give pretty well anything to get batches of the British worlving 1 ! 1 man in the trenches here; a week's cramps and trench mortars for Is per day would, do him a world oi good." /