IN GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 74, 28 March 1919, Page 4

IN GERMANY

1 A WELLINGWIAN'S EXPERI- . i ENOES. An interesting letter has bpen receiVied by Mr M. Cable, Wellington Train* ways Engineer, from his brother, Laqce- , Corporal J. Cable, who has been with I the Field Ambulance since 1915. Tbs I letter, dated from Hamburg, isas fait flows:— ** t I am one of our small party despatch) ! ed from Cologne about two and~a-ha!f ; weeks ago to maae .search for any of ’ our British prisoners who may still bo about this area. Many more > parties have been sent to Various parts, of'GcS£ many on the same errand. We hayd been In this 'great city for aboiit a fort l ,■ night, and since leaving the Rhineland have altogether been without news fromthe outside world. No mails, either wayjr Some British officers have jtist arrived on a special mission, and th®id has offered to take back arijt mad' for ns. We move 'further' east’id-morrow, so 1/ am just running -off this hunied (note before wo leave. Mav Probably be another fortnight. o r possibly a month before we return to Cologne. Last week I chmc:d posting a postcard I 'to yoU? but it was returned —so evidently' oifc* many is not \et permitting any postalcommunication to Great burg’s population exceeds a about 1,200.000 city alright. We have an Enn-lisn and a New 'Zealand

medical officer, the latter being the Rev. Josiah Ward. ; A- better m?more genial officer •we could nob bav& desired. , Our convoy or party consists of three large cover d-in motor lofriiiaand five ambulance cars—twenty mg®, | incfuding eight medical—of the ' bttteb thefe are three English and five: JNews Zealand. Wherever we have gohftjwa have proved most interesting objected the only British soldiers in these parti, I and probably the only ones-who have been here for some years. The people and soldiers havo mostly taken us.fpT; Americans, and sometimes English,-hilt many a time one would' hear the whSa? per, ‘’Americans!” A score of we would be approached with: ‘‘•‘jflaw you Americans?” and ‘'‘What are jof , doing here?” Though there has > I much still we have been ran? .molested. A 'few machine-guns and were fired the other evening, but bably it was more to frighten the volutionists. The city possesses a-very extensive and a fine electrio, tramway service. One of the chief points of, Ibk terest to ( me hafs been the great with its 5 numerous fine' quays, floating docks, . and great waterway. In, plaice , times great numbers of tourists comO • from the Old Country Americai; - is indeed a great city, w|tti many nificent buildings. The food problettt is very acute. We have been living sin some of the best hotels, at the - expense - of the German Army or authorities. 1 1 . , ■ •r&ty* '■s, ' , ;c v «fit’.