ALL GONE TO FIGHT.
EXPERTKNCKS OF A NEW ZEALANDER IN FRANCE.
"There is hardly a Frenchman in the town; they have all gone to fight. It seems curioi.s to see jo many women workers at men's jobs." So writes a young New Zealandcr to his parents in Auckland. "It is quite safe here (in Etaples) he adds. "The nearest trenches are over a hundred miles away in Belgium. The bridge outsido my window is guarded day and night by soldiers, and I have a .special passport to get about. I am often held up. Von see tbero are so many German spies about. I must not be. out after six o'clock, and we have great fun getting back to that time. Yesterday BO aeroplanes flew over this village on their way to Paris. They were. English, all the way from London. One machine had to come down —something having gone wrong with the engine- and it landed a short distance from my phe:?. A friend and 1 bad a word or two with the aviators, but they didn't say much. A big Frenchman employed as a road-mender thought they might be Germans, and came running over with a great stick to batter them with. When 1 told him they were English he was satisfied they were all right."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 6
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218ALL GONE TO FIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 6
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