ENEMY GUNS.
AN EX-SOLDIERS FKOXBR. (To the Editor.) 1,1 - vo " r »«•«© of .Saturday but « appeared a photograph o f cnemvtLf* ~4« • in the Great War, and the folkS" ,,, ** alo, J? *,de: "Only j nn k tbe« S?«*s«4 enemy ins f rom Ulc Ul , fZfe J**"* useful nor ornamental, and in l JSl**** of the Auckland Domain arc thJ.*^?-'"«*» injr away/' Xow, sir, I r a ™ SS^*" I, **- disgrac* that these trophieTV.JTrill!! l * rust away as thev arT TW* 1 !!* , minted by the Auckland" * nnisfum authorities and plat«d * position near the new War MfX^.fJ?* , ' with plate. «„ U,em a* t<, wl^i ,, ** captured and by which resiment arc not junk to those who h, d uSJT* them and when one realise* how *.!?!> was died for the capture of e«L "*"* and iwrdßhip undergone, dragguiji these guns from the frt»? that their folks in X ew somo tan<nltle memorial from the tfe-2* theatres of war, it is the least thin* tlSal* res|H>nsible can do, to look after preserve them in a fitting phce in tfcjr ' resent on behalf 'of my arms this term of "junk" IwumTmSw f trophies of war, which mean TwriS #! those who had anything to do witk ihtn*~l of them, even if they do not mean tmSSI to others. These trophies of war silent memorial to the gallant faUekrf * and a reminder to the youn«tr jmtentLT?!! to-day of what those who fo««ht fo tfcVfiL-I War did and suffered. W. E. L. XXPtBL
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 6
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240ENEMY GUNS. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 6
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