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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 5

WAR BOOTS AND SOCKS. J.C writes as' follows to the Auckland Star: ''There' is little doubt that socks are well-nigh useless in the field, for if holed and roughly darned they are only useful to blister. I think it well to just r>oint out what I noticed m 1870 when before Paris seeking the whereabouts of a girl cousin; who was in the city alone during the siege. The German soldier used a piece of cloth I'.whioh he had learnt to fold, and it /^etn^d to answer and be comfortable. | The French used a bandage like a surgiea^ bandage, crossed and recrossed, and. would evert separate the toes; The lat^ ter was very comfortable, and I ha^T personal experieno© of it."