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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1917, Page 5

What strikes one moeti of all is the way England is awake (writes a New Zealand soldier from Sling camp). People in New Zealand work hard, but it is nothing to what the English people are I cannot tell you how proud I am to be here to do my little bit. In Albany and Capetown the residents did not appear to be a bit enthusiastic; ia fact, thero were thousands of young men to be seen who should be giving us a helping hand. They treated us as though we were men who had no other occupation, and were glad to go and fight in order to have something to do. But the same spirit does not exist in England. You defn't see a young man anywhere out of khaki. Every one is a soldier. Women and boys do all the work. The English people, too, are so grateful to the New Zcatandcrs for coining to help them. England is thoroughly awake, ; bristling, alert. In the camp we are ' working harder than ever we have done in our lives. Officers and men alike have to get their backs into it. There is snow on the ground in the morning, yet &s soon as reveilla sounds, you hop out of bunk, wash and shave in cold water, eat a hearty breakfast, and then to solid work for the rest of the dajC At night one is so tired that at times I have been too fatigued to undress, and, like many others, have slept in my j clothes. But I am as happy as a king, , and would not wish to forego anything I have to go through. One was quite bewildered at first at the hundreds of aeroplanes Hying about overhead, motors flying about at top speed, and men and officers tunning 'here and there. Every- 1 thing is done at) the double—nobody t would dream of'walking leisurely. I Profpttik*. aursft Coia§t * j