S. A. CHAPLAIN’S LETTER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 2

S. A. CHAPLAIN’S LETTER.

The following letter has been received bv a Hastings resident, from a Salvation /irmv chaplain in France: —"The prevailing conditions are trying for the men. They are doing their bit m mud and misery, wet. and weariness, cold and cracked hands mth "tins and grief shells and shocks, wounds and woes, death a id desn’at on ever on their trail. — ’Could New Zealand but see her soldier sons here at the presenttime she would stand in awe at their heroic intrepidity.’—This at present is the verv best spot, offering unlimited opportunity, to a wideawake live man much more so th n i village when troops merely billet or pass m and out. If we change our front again, then the training base ot that front, is the, pl tie whric the iic st effective work can be done. is our French flaming ] ase nd o the man there has a clan fr reach and influence tens ot tnousands as all our Australian troons must pass through there. Our divisions in the line jump about the front, north to south and vice versa, so that we have no settled jlaet nt pics nt. never see anv hut. Y.M.C.A., or otherwise : I haven t seen one for over a fciti ithl m feed nearer a month. From this you see rov contention of the great, chance ot reaching the nen in th settled c mips.”