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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1919, Page 5

A New Zealand soldier with the forces in Germany, writing from Refrnth, near Cologne, on February 2, to Mr. YV. R. Quenell. of Cavershain, Dunedin, states: —"Life in Germany is none too sweet. It is bitterly cold. The wind nearly cuts one in two. Plenty of snow and frost. This little village is about ten miles from Cologne by tram. It is a dead-and-alive hole—about two men and a dog in it, that's about all. The civvies stick us up in the street and say, 'Nii chocolate,' asking for chocolate, which they get, I don't think. If they are not after chocolate it is cigarettes, They are a miserable-looking lot. They live on potatoes, and eat about 41b each at a go. My. word, they do shovel them down. They are poorly fed. A piece of soap, half the size of an ordinary tablet of toilet (Soap, costs ss, and boots £ 5. The poorer classes have paper boots, with wooden soles. Butter is £2 a lb, meat 24b a lb. I cauaot Imagine how, tat; liv» «t »1L"