CANADIANS AT THE FRONT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12429, 21 January 1915, Page 5

CANADIANS AT THE FRONT.

i IN THE FIRST LINE. Received January 20, at 11.15 p.m. Paris, January 20. Princess Patricia's Light Infantry 'were the first Canadians who reached France. They came with a party of Indian troops, and after spending a fortnight with the reserves were fcvnt to relieve the French troops in the first line of trenches, l!>0 yards from the Germans. The trench??, were knee-deep in mud and water, and there was. no place to lie or sit, and though they were subjected to heavy shell fire they j continued night sniping, i The "Patricians" are now enjoying a few days' rest before, returning to the | firing line.