MID THE SCREAM OF SHELLS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 10 March 1915, Page 6

MID THE SCREAM OF SHELLS.

REIMS RESIDENTS LIVE IN CELLARS. One of Sydney's largo business bouses received by last mail the following interesting letter from Mr. diaries Marcel ileiusieck, one of the partners in the bi" l'rench champagne firm. I n the course of his letter, M. Heiduieck writes- "We are not only very busy, but I must say that all one's thoughts go either to the everyday duty or to the good or bad news from the front. You have, no doubt, received word from my father who has remained at Reims, being a town councillor, and, as you know, our town has been fired lit every day and night for more .than 120 days. Some quarters of it are altogether burned or destroyed. Our cathedral is nearly destroyed. Luckily, my father has escaped e\ory injury from bombs or otherwise, lie lives in the cellars of my brother's private residence, our own having been ' t'v damaged. Tiie workmen, their wives and <,ndren live in the cellars cf oil'- 1-usiKoss premises. "Asy, ;U ; , ue from ()l0 #(Urc j lm not at the front. I left for the firing line at the beginning, but was tak<m seriously ill I a „i all right now, and lea* i! for the front within one month, either as interpreter to the English Staff or to rejoin my regiment. My brother, Kobcrt, is commanding a company here, and my brother George leaves for the tront m two months' time. ''Your British troops are fighting very well and it is very fine to see how society young men have enlisted in England. We look forward to a very serious advance within the next two months and J hope that next spring will see these barbarians over the Rhine. They have proved able and willing to commit any crime on women children prisoners and wounded, and they shall be made to account for it. Let us hope that the end of spring will see the Allies alto-' fjether victorious, that a peaceful and prosperous era will arise, and that wo' may be there to see it." |