OUR SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1917, Page 2

OUR SOLDIERS' LETTERS.

FROM. LANCE-CORi’O I!AL RICH ARDSON. PRISONER, OU WAR. .Mrs. Riclm/dson, of High Sheet, Greymouth, has received a letter from her son, Lance-Corporal Richardson, xvliu is a prisoner ul war at Cassell (Germany), and from which wc have been permitted to lake the following extracts. Thu letter is dated .Juno l/lli, and across one page two or three lines •have been completely obliterated by the Geiman censor:— “A few more lines to let you know J am keeping well. 1 received a parcel from home last Monday, containing a tin of whitebait, 't hey went all right. Alsu received a letter which was over a year leaching here. Am now working in the country on a farm. The hours are long, but I am now gett.ii j; more and better food, and have not, to go to the. trouble of cooking it, as before. The weather is very hot. I seem to feel if more here. . (four or five lines are censored here). The people whom I am working for have a son in London. The wife’s name was Richardson, and they seem to think 1 am a relative of hers There are father, mother and two daughters at home, and they all work very hard. This is the busy time, getting the hay and crops in. It is very pretty to see the old men and women and children all assisting in the fields. It is quite a new experience for mo. Have received fifteen parcels from New up to date. God knows when 1 will get out of fills, but it might have been worse. I received a very good parcel from the Liverpool Society in Christchurch, and have acknowledged it to the Commissioner. Kind regards to all. My address is:— No. 6/3443 C. Richardson, N.Z. Prisoner of War, No. 112-3 Company 8, Cassell, Hesse-Nassan 11, Germany.”