"DOING WELL."

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13652, 21 August 1916, Page 2

"DOING WELL."

»' ' "» LETTER FROM LIEUTENANT , DOWNIE STEWART. ! DDNBDIN, August 13, ■ In the course of air interelsing Idler [ to the lion. J. Allen, Minister of DeJ fence, Lieutenant W, Downie Stewart, | M.P. for Duncdin West, refers to his , experiences "somewhere in France," . hard by a town that once was fair and j prosperous, but is now a ruin of shatter- ( ed houses, and blackened gardens oe- ' casionally shelled by tho Germans and almost descried, although there are still ' two restaurants at which one can get ' t a good meal. I "1 am away from the trenches for six 5 days," he writes, "at a sniping school , behind the lines. The work is most j interesting ami lam glad of Hie chance 1 of attending this school, where J have 1 gained valuable information,'' . At a later date he says: "1. am now back at the front, where we have just ''. come out to rest Die men after 14 days r in tho first line. Our boys have had k several brushes with the enemy in No- '• Jlan's-Lnnd, audi think they held Iheir I'- own rcry well. There are all sorts of a schools for training, and every lime [\ the men come out of Ihe line a certain number of Ilium and ofliccrs go to these T schools for training. There is not ( [ much rest. The men are doing well, If and you would be very proud of them. This town is a sad sight, No one „* will be sorry when the war ends,"