DON'T WORRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1916, Page 7

DON'T WORRY.

HOW TijlE WAR WILL END. A SOLDIER'S IMPRESSIONS. A member of the Sixth Haurakis; writing to his friends at Waihi from England, touches upon several matters which should prove of interest to New Zealanders. In regard to the future lie says: "Don't worry about how the war will end; we'll give t'hem ginger this coming six months, I think. There, are a terrific lot of shells, aeroplanes, etc., in England in readiness. There will be a most appalling flare-lip soon, I think; guns, and big guns, too. " Gee, there will be a smacking up. Don't you worry about it at all. lam very confident about it. The big guns will do the talking. There are thousands and thousands of guns... Of this I am sure. Don't think Britain is not getting do>wn to business. I don't think a nation has ever got so set and determined about a war.

"They..talk about shirkers, but I do not see any at all, except an odd one or two. Britishers all seem to think that New Zealand lias done so well, and so she has, but the crowd in New Zealand does not realise it in the same way as the crowd here. Your National Register says you have 34.000 men of military age who won't help by either civil or military means. Is this right? Surely it cannot be. If it is, well, God strafe them. They surely cannot realise this war at all. . If the Germans were to win, why it's the end of all' things. Where is freedom, fair play and civilisa-. tion. as we know it, going to? To Hades, of course, or anywhere lip in the flames; 34,000! it can't he right. I should like to leadi this blessed 34,000 by the hand gently, through some Belgian village, or through some hos-pital foi. blind soldiers; blinded, not by fair war, but bv that ghastly gas, or ruined in'-health by it. Bah! they make me sick. They're not men, but creeping worms." In regard to the submarine warfare the writer states that Britishers have captured a terrible lot in different ways, and report that the German submarine morale is said to be almost, if not quite, gone. He gives a "description of the manner in which the submarines are snared in the nets. The latter, he states, give the alarm as soon as they are touched. Touching upon the matter of German air raids, he says it was reported that every-man wounded in one of these raids died from blood poisoning, and that every man who was wounded at the bombardment of Scarborough died in the same manner. The writer says he eould not ward off the jnteric. There were thousands of cases, and it was difficult to say what will happen, to them. There were 300 at his centre', and they were being reinforced all the time.