VICTORS IN GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1919, Page 8

VICTORS IN GERMANY.

HUNS VERY OBLIGING. In a letter to his father (Mr. A. Kemp), Sergeant A. R. Kemp, of Mat a, writes: We are now in a town or suburb of Cologne. Cologne is on the ba>nks of the Rhine, but where I am is about thirteen miles away. We travelled from Cologne to this place in motors, and followed the river for a long way. It is a great sight along the rivers. Germany is a great place, no doubt. The houses are well built, and the towns are nicely laid out. Plenty of electric light and tram cars; also coal for heating. The country is rolling„in most cases, and hilly in others; quite different from Belgium, which just now is mostly under water. We have to keep a firm hand on the Huns here, but they are very obliging, and, of course, they have to be, or you can guess how our chaps would treat them—a little more forcibly than you think. Our sergeants' mess is in a hotel, and we take full use of whatever we want. We have a fine sitting room, dining room and all, just as you have at home, with a piano and telephone in it. Our sleeping apartments are in another hotel further up. We all have soft beds and white sheets, so you can guess it is a jolly good war. The people are in a bad way, though, and the morals of the women are the lowest of the three nations we have been in touch with, and one has to be mighty careful how he carries on. However, that is the German idea of what his country ought to be, and it is not much of a success. Well, they are making Fritz pay the price now, and it is not too much. He has wrecked some of the finest places you would see anywhere, and torn the whole country to bits in France. And yet, a funny thing, Belgium is hardly hurt, with the exception of Ypres ,and around there, where he had to fight for every inch. We haven't had any snow yet, and may not get any for a while yet."