A LETTER FROM FRANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3316, 3 October 1917, Page 63

A LETTER FROM FRANCE.

France, July 24, 1917. Dear Dot,—Just a few lines to let you know that I turn still well and going strong. I have not written to the page tor somo time now, and just to-day I picked up an. old) Witness and saw a few of the Old Writers' names, and as I had a few minutes to spare I thought it up to me to write before being too old Since I last wrote I am miles and miles away, and will be glad when I leach back again. France is a very pretty country, even at the present time, so it must have been a lovely country before the war broke out and spoilt it. I have travelled through a fair amount of it, and the parks and flower gardens are still blooming in spite of the shells that have torn them up. Devastation is wrought all around, and when one sees such lovely and picturesque buildings and parks laid low by the Germans it makes one feel angry, even at seeing such things don just for the sake of destruction. But let us hope that it will not "be long before they are brought to reason, and have to pay all indemnities for what they have done. I am sorry I have not much time, but will try and write again. So I must drop my pencil, take up my rifle, and go up to the trenches and do some more work. There is always plenty to do, both by dav and by night. Fritz is shelling now and again, so I had better close my scribble and move a little farther away into a safer place. Love*to all the D.L.F. and yourself.—Yours truly, BRITISH BOY (Lovell's Flat, now in France).