GIVE US THE CANADIANS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 260, 1 November 1915, Page 8

GIVE US THE CANADIANS.

. ANT) WE REACH tONSTi-NTrS'urLE.-In a letter to his mother, who reside-) at Tobdcn. Private X Koord say, he is never done thanking his lucky stars (or his good health. "It's a game ot chance here."' he writes, "at ten o'clock you arc grand: at ten past you are bom- .at nod to the burial area. It is surprising how callous on.- gets towards death wounds, etc. To give you an cvample Mt boots being worn out. and having to wait a time tor new ones. I took a prac ticavllv new- pair orT a dead man. and wore them there and then. Such a,.la are common, and quite unnoticed here Our only sport here is ' prey -back hunt ing '—at every chance off comes our togs, and a merry lime ensues. "The old 13th Regiment still exists; further I cannot fay. A great oil crowd of die-hards, and what we hay. gone through is a good foundation for the -Thirteenths' that will carry on n New Zealand after the battle flags ar>furlctl It's well over twelve months since I left home, and during that time I have lived a lifetime under eircurr. j stances of which the outer world knows little. Actual contact with our method- I of living and dying brings home the truth of what vv,- read conctu-nin" such things, and it is the old story of the theoretical versus the practical e..p*-ri encre over again. "The Colonials have made good, and old .lacko I the Turk) does not like u=. especially when a glistening bayonet! strikes his eye, or. ps-rhaps. some other ' part of his anatomy. Australia and I N'evv Zs-aland stand together, and we I reckon if we only had the Canadians to bring our numbers up. we would go to Constantinople without a stop. \„ 1 such talk is not more colonial swagger ! We like to get gum- and have the ma t ter finished with, even if a crowd of us I go down. But. of course. We are und r ' orders, and have to abide by circum I stances.