I In a letter dated M n 2:',rd. L'eiit. Ditiinct says ; "The excit enient is great, anti all the bo.v s enjov the fun. ■We live mid'i ei’iimd. mglit tret down in a trench twi.i loci wide, and I vve ]iave great reads. J our sleep in my street, and thev are very good chaps; Tlie hems are verv hard on us, W'e generally work until I I p.m., and then we have to ’stand lo’ at. 3.:’,0 a.m. Lord Kitchener is reported to have stated that : The colonials are either d — n fools cr the finest, t.iei'ps the world has ever seen. L have a giand crowd of bovs here, bul the real work is totally different to ’what vve experienced in peace tune. Lieut. Diiliiii t 'expresses this wish in Jiis letter: "A hot bath would go till right, and after the bath to turn in ; for a good sleep bel ween sheets, then pi rridge and cieam for breakfast. Jovei that would go well."
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 428, 6 August 1915, Page 2
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