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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16348, 3 April 1915, Page 7

In a letter to Dr M'Nab. M.P., Dr A. A Martin, of Palmerston North, writes from the front:—""We have a lot of German wounded at this time. I had to operate on a lot of them. The wounded "have no nationality with the medical service; they us simply poor fellows in need of skilled help, and we gave them of our best They are all so grateful, bo thev wounded I< reach, Belgian, German, or -British, to the doctor who stands by them in their hour of great trouble: I 'am glad I 3ame out. . . . I will feel in years to come that I have done my bit. I never im'agined when a youth that I would serve in two wars—the South African and the war of the nations but there it, is. ... I am stills going strong, but the hard' life is telling on me a bit. Mercifully, I have escaped so far, but twice I thought my hour had come. It was so that I got my note-book and several letters, retied them up, and then addressed them to my wife, but lc bon Dieu saw me through, . . (The letter is dated January 7, and a portion' had been cut out by the censor.)

— Only 6000 Europeans are included in the population of the island of Ceylon, which totals well over 4,000,030. British silver coins are made from an amalgam of 37 parts pure silver with three parts of copper.