WOMEN AND CHILDREN CALLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 2

WOMEN AND CHILDREN CALLING.

A SOLDIERS TERRIBLE STORY

From Miss Masie.Kox, of Maguey Street, Woollahra, the Premier of New South Wales has received a letter which her brother wrote to his .mother before heiiig killed in action. He writes:—

"Oh God in Heaven, the awful sight we have seen. We will never forgot. Old men, old women, young women, babies in arms, and toddlers a few years old simply murdered. To-night T have just helped bury a young woman who lay in the corner of ihe old barn wo are using. for n bathroom, she lay covered with a greatcoat one of our chaps had put over her. Whsn ;i picked ii|> the coat, T was nearer fainting than when the bullet took my helmet off at L -. -Mother, she was the picture of our sister. Her hair was all tumbled loose. Her lingers had been cut off to get her rings. One breast was cut off. My God, she must have died an awful death. I sat down and howled life a kid. We had seen mVn and women of all nations lying dead. But when we found an Englishwoman it was too much for us. I feel T shall not come home again. I don't know vhy. Perhaps it is on account of that girl we buried. Mother, tell all the lads

if thev don't want to light For their Kino; there are women, and children calling them."

"Miss r'ox says she has two more brothers lighting, and "would go myself if i were a man."