IN MESOPOTAMIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1918, Page 3

IN MESOPOTAMIA.

SOLDIER'S INTERESTING LETTER. , Interesting letters from Lieutenant R. ' G. Sellar describe, inter alia, tho landing of his battery of artillery in Mesopotamia (says the Hawera Star). When he wrote he said he was camped on the presincts of a very famous town, in a very nice, comfortable billet, consisting of a two-storied house made of mud with an inner courtyard and balconies, and a flat roof to sleep on in summer. He said that Lieutenant Dew Caplen was not far away, and he hoped soon to see him. "At Kut," he adds, "I saw a New Zealander named Aegner, from Hunterville, and had a yarn with him, but out here there are very few New Zealanders. A considerable portions of the troops are Indian native remounts. We had a hostile plane over us to-day, but no bombs near us." He gives some amusing descriptions of his bargaining with native shopmen in town in furtherance of his duties as mess secretary. Just after they landed, they experienced a real tropical downpour, with the river rising 3ft in three days. Ho says that everything in the way of food is tremendously dear, and as the whole supplies of the country are commandeered by the military, such articles as flour and mea.t cannot be bought. Eggs, when they can lie bought, are 2Jd each. "The rations we get," he adds, "are good, but monotonous They consist of Mb of bread per day, bully beef three times a week, local mutton twice a week—it consists of boi, nid sinew aid is difficult to use—flu,-.™ meat once a week when lucky, 2oz of butter twice a week. If you sniffle and sneeze and feel ill at ease, If your sight gets blurred and you sag at the knees, You may bet your life it's a signal sure 1 You're in need of Woods' Peppermint Cure. . So don't get worried, and don't grow sad, Thousands of others have been as bad; Your influenza won't long endure [ I tf you take Woods' Great Peppermint "■'re,