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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 18, 14 February 1924, Page 3

War experiences are always interesting, especially when they contain a dasli of humour or of singularity (says the Poverty Bay Herald). An ex-soldier related a peculiar experience the. other day. While he was on service in France, a mate on leave, and this narrator gave him two letters to post from England. As they contained ccnsorable matter, the soldier took the precaution to conceal tlie letters in the butt-trap of his ride, where oil and pull through are usually kept. On arrival in Blighty he found it impossible to extract the letters from their place of concealment, and they remained there over three months, during which the owner returned to his unit, and advised his friend of the occurrance. They were both wounded, and the rifle was left among the debris of a battlefield. Ten or twelve weeks later the letters were delivered by the intelligence department to the addressees, the rifle butt having, presumably, been smashed by a shell fragment and the letters revealed.