WOUNDED IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16129, 18 January 1916, Page 6

WOUNDED IN ENGLAND.

NO LACK OF ENTERTAINMENT. I A member of the Australian force, I Bu-ler Hanslow, who is in England, writes to his father as follows:— " It is impossible to tell you how pood and kind the tnpjsh people are to us. Motor-cars every- • where, afternoon teas, dinners, picture ' shows. I shall never forget the kindness while I was in hospital. The ladies would «Ut by the side of our beds 2nd bring books and anything else fiiej thought would interest us. Then, i n the afternoons, they would com* with their motorcars and take the convalescents in* 20 or ! 40 mile rides. As we have the best of ! rood, it 15 no wonder we get well so quickly. \V c could not accept half the invitation* to visit the homes of our kind '• «£ 'r I *"> staying at present with an I officer of the Oxiord and Rucks Light In- I fantry. He was very good to me while I I was in hospital. There was great rejoic- ! ing in his house to-day. B.s brother had I ""turned from the trenches in France I i his officer says the Germans are beaten ; though not yet conquered. Round his end of the front the Germans have been surrenderingm little batches, all the fight be ii knocked out of them, they are mffiE? wretched, and depressed, 'they say they cannot sUnd it any longer/ living in trenches day and night, and never know- ' np he moment when the British^ S T J •>, m . UP - ° I ? ° the prisoners ,ut nf ,h n their , comrades were not taken out of the place they were in bv NoWnber 29 a lot more would surrender tk wanted to get back to Xir wives target 0 Said *** tHe Gl was t& t„don h^^ g a t a f i?«S surrendered he would be taken to. T ™A "here he would be safe, and when ° ' was declared he would beable to JF*Z to his home, wife and childln. but if*S stayed m the trenches he wen/d be kill«s }ou need not expect me back W ■2' I am iroin«rto hav» another smack L\l -my,' Bugler aarulow is 17 years of