A letter received from a soldier at the front (states tho Oamaru Mail) incidentally mentions the number of callow youths the Germans have in their fighting lines on the west front. In ono of the recent irrea.t battles the New Zealanders, on charging up a hill, were confronted by a number of .youths whoso ages ranged from about 1" years upwards. So boyish were they that the New Zealanders could not bring themselves to treat them as fighting men, and many of these boys had thei? lives spared to them because of their almost infantile appearance.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 8
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96Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Witness, Issue 3312, 5 September 1917, Page 8
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