PLUCKY NEW ZEALANDER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 137, 12 February 1915, Page 7

PLUCKY NEW ZEALANDER.

THE ’XMAS DAY TRUCE. That the cabled reports of a truce being observed on Christmas Day were quite true is fathered from a letter which Mr Maurice Cohen, of Palmerston North, has received from his son. Lieutenant Louis Cohen, cf the R.A.M.C. The following is an extract from the letter: There must have been a mutual understanding between the troops cn both sides to cease hostilities tc-day, as 1 have not heard a shot, either rifle cr big gun, this morning, and at about this time of the day things get pretty rowdy. Two officers who were in the trenches have just told us that they and seme of their raen, as well as the opposing Germans, «ame out of their trenches half-way and chatted and smoked together. In the course of the same letter, addressed to his mother, Lieut Cohen says: For goodness sake don’t worry, as you say you are doing. You would net have me anywhere else but here, I know ,and remember that every one out here has a mother. I am as fit as o flea, have plenty of grub, and am making history.