LETTER FROM THE FRONT.
Sergeant H. G. Manning, who belongs to Now Zealand, writing to relatives here irorn " Somewhere, in Franco" on July 13, says "our boys have been subjected lately to some very heavy bombardments, and have come out of a trying ordeal very well indeed. When he starts Fritz makes tilings very lively, and is not at all particular what he hits, churches and such like other buildings being his favourites. Our forces aro making great progress on the whole front, and I quite believe the gains will be continued. The general opinion hero is that the great war will bo finished before the end of the summer. The continual noise of bursting shells and machine guns, rilies, etc., ha 6 a tendency to crack up a fellows' nerves, and ho longs to be back in quiet, peaceful New Zealand. Our trench mortar battery has been doiug excellent work lately; getting right into Fritz's trenches. Only yesterday we put in 80 shells in two minutes with our trench howitzer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3259, 30 August 1916, Page 43
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