MUSICIAN'S RELEASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 8

MUSICIAN'S RELEASE.

LONG INTERNMENT. London, December 9. Thomson Newcastle Bryceson Trecarn'e, an Adelaide musician, has arrived in London after a long internment at Ruhleben camp in Germany.

"IF PEACE WOULD RETURN" GERMAN SOLDIER'S LETTER. SORROWING PARENTS. The London Daily Chronicle has received a curious and deeply pathetic collection of letters, postcards, and other documents found in the possession of German soldiers who had been killed on the Western front. There is evidence to show that the dead men were Bavarians, and belonged to a Bavarian division. The correspondence comes from towns like . Ansbach and Wurzburg, and from remote j villages. Most of the postcards are of the regulaI tion type, and contain nothing but greetings from friends, and expressions of | friends' desire to see. their soldiers safe back in their homes. Others are of greater interest. The reservist Wiessmann carried about with him a picture postcard of a pretty sylvan scene near his home until its edges were frayed and torn. A letter from Wurzburg to a soldier at the front is signed " Youi<Parents," and is well worth giving in extenso. It throws a world of light on the thoughts at the I back of the minds of millions of Germans l whose war enthusiasm they ever had .any—has been long since dissipated: — ' Wurzburg, the 2nd, 1915. I Beloved Karl,—To-day at last lam able Ito fulfil your wishes after the house has i been cleaned. For me, with my one arm iit was a terrible job. Evenings I was so tired that I could not move. We are sending you a pair of socks, foot-cloths, insect powder, and ointment; also some writing paper. ... I have wished for a Ion? time to send yon a nice hard sausage, but, dear Karl such things cannot be paid for by poor devils like us. It would cost three "marks Most of all. we would rather not live any longer. We can hardly buy anything Batter, eega lard can only be had by rich people. Butter costs two marks a pound • a hundredweight of coals two marks. If this state of things continues we shall see' something happen. Ah, dear Karl, with the deeoest sorrow in my heart, I think of you having to bear the wicked winter If only peace would aeain return! Otherl wise no news. With hearty (rreetingg from all relatives and acquaintances, and greetings and a kiss from your loving Parents.