WAR JOTTINGS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 180, 6 April 1915, Page 7

WAR JOTTINGS

“WON’T FIGHT” SOLDIERS. i j The Amsterdam Telegraaf’s eorres | pond eat at Lommoi sfiya that a Gei--1 man* camp h"s been established south jof Voorst and Tessenderloo. It is. i fenced in with oarbed wire, and contains over -1000 unarmed German so'- ■ diers who liave been sentenced for refusing to fight or for mutiny. The : population is not permitted to approach A. i THE TRAGEDY OP A LETTER. Among the most pathetic incidents lin regard to soldier’s letters which j have come from the front is the chequered career of the following. The ! letter was begun by a man in the —— Regiment, and was found stained on I his dead body. The comrade who i wrote upon the back ' part of it, explaining the circumstances, handed the letter to an officer, who promised to see after its postage. Then comes a I note attached, endorsing that the secI ond writer had been killed. Later, the officer’s name appeared in the roll of honour, before the letter arrived at...it.* I destination. The first man’s share of ■ the letter is all life and jollity, the second writes as though with a promonj ition of death, the third is drily offi- ; cial. The possessor had had it framed 'with the simple word “War” beneath' it.