THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 12 February 1915, Page 2

THE WAR.

THE T.TOf-1 MOVING I.KTTEE. "This is the most interesting letter written during the war. The writer was a French cavalry officer, and the letter was addressed to his fiancee, a young American girl in Paris. It was written as he lay dying, after being wounded in a cavalry charge. It is a wonderful letter. This is how it runs," says the Daily Citizen:— "There are two other men lying near me, and I do not think there is much hope for them either. One is an officer of a Scottish regiment, and the other a private in the Uhlans. They were struck down after me, and, when I came to myself, I found them bending over me, rendering first aid. "The British was pouring water doivn my throat from his (lusk, while the German was endeavoring to staunch my wound with an anti-septic preparation served out to them bv their medical corps. The Highlander had one of his legs shattered, and] thei German had several pieces of shrapnel buried in his side.

In spite of their own sufferings, thev were trying to help me, and when I was finally conscious again, the German gave lis a morphia injection and took one himself, after which lie gave us the morphia reedle, together with lirintel irstructions for use. r

After the injection, feeling wonderful y at ease, we spoke of the lives we had lived before the war. We all spoke English, an( we talked of the women l'i £:'T' Botll thc German and the British lmd only been married a

.li,l «i r 1 su PP ose fie others ti l, why we had fought each other at w.; L " tl,c Hfel'tander. who snih. nf l- g 1° ox,la " s ted. and in spite of his drawn face and mud-stained fro, rt rm ' T1 T l ' (1 tho ''mbodimont of fici.dom. lhen I thought of the Tricolor of France and all that France had done for liberty. Then I watched the -.unian, who had ceased to speak. He bad take,, a Prayer-book from his knapsack and was trying to read a servlL f °r wounded soldiers in battle. I realised 1 Wato,u ' cl ,lim ' alised \\ hat we were fighting for. the riritiaW !" vain '. poaco. 0f clvl 'isation and J'fo l<»tt(T ends »» c tl.e failing an(l ih ' p n'i'is. Tt was found at the <7..n i m - l> side bv a ]{,.,! (W„ fil , (,uul oncers «»' to his flaiicee!" " Was onvar '.l-