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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 10

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RESIDENTS LIVE IX CELLARS. One of large business houses received In- last mail tlie following .interesting letter from 31. Charles Marcel Hoidsiec-k, one of the partners in the l>i{r French champagne linn. In the course of liis letter. M. Heidsieek write.s: —''We are not only very busy, but I must say that all one's thoughts go either to the everyday duty or to the yood or bad news from the front. Yon have, no doubt, received word from my fattier, who has remained in Rhei?n.s. Inring a town councillor, and, a? you know, our town has been iired at every day and night for more than 120 days. Some quarters of it are altogether burned or destroyed. Our cathedral is nearly destroyed. Luckily, my father has escaped every injury from liombs or otherwise. He lives in the cellars of my brother's private residence, our own having been greatly damaged. The workmen, their wives and children live in the cellars of our business premises.

•'Your British troops are fighting very well, and it is vei-y fine to see how society young men have enlisted in England. "Wo iook forward to a very serious advance within the next two months, and I hope that next spring will set* these barbarians over the Rhine. They have proved able and willing to i-ommit any crime on wome:i, -children, prisoners, and wounded, and they shall be made to account for it. Let us hone that the end of spring will see the Allies altogether victorious, and thnt a peaceful and prosperous t-ra wiil arise, and that we may be there to tec it/