CAMP LIFE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 27, 8 September 1911, Page 17

CAMP LIFE.

Dear Sir, —In "The Maoriland Worker" yoxi have a short account of a comrade, and photo, of same, now residing in Salt' Lake City. The name is C. Child, and I shall -esteem it a favour if you oan give mc his postal address. I worked with this man in South Africa 15 years ago, and he was then a good Socialist, but at that time I was not. In closing I would like to mention, how I vahie the "Worker" above any paper I know, and fully endorse your anti-military views. During my 17 years in S.A. I donmed the uniform for the late war, being at Spionkop, etc., etc., and would like to add one thing to what you have said in such an able way—viz., camp life has in every case a most demoralising effect on the men, and. the occasional singing of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," etc., is rank hypocrisy. One chaplain told mc he had, on more than one occasion had a shot at a. Boer. Every good wish. —Yours fraternally, Masterton. WM. WILKINSON.