SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
One of our returned soldiers had to be pestered pretty muoh before he would talk of his own experiences at tho front, but at last ho responded to the persuasion with the followingl was walking along a street when I heard music proceeding from a house, and knowing wo were weloomjo everywhere, I knocked at the door. Before I had let go the knocker I hoard German voices coming along tho passage, and was so frightened that I trembled all over; and, tho knooker continued' to rattlo as I held it—unable to let go. Just as tho door was about to bo opened an English shell struck the house and carried it and all its contents right away (from my hand to goodness knows where. I was saved, and never more .astonished in my life till I got home and found that Penrose suits, of latest English and Paris fashions, wero still obtainable, made-to-measure, for 50s!" This soldier vouches for it that Penrose suits " take tho bun" for style and finish, go whero you will.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16667, 12 April 1916, Page 4
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178SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 16667, 12 April 1916, Page 4
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