SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5539, 20 September 1916, Page 3

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.

The following i-. ail extract from a letter written “somewhere in France," to a relative n Christchurch : —“Your new- regarding the Conscription Bill was good, but 1 do not think that married mem with families should he sent to the firing line They should be given jobs such a sthose in the Medical Corps, A.SC. and ordnance work, where they stand a better chance and would occupy the positions at present held by married men without anv ties.

I was looking Fiirough an Auckland weekly paper, in which J saw lurid and ridiculous descriptions of the doings of the Anzaes in France. 1 could not help laughing. There* was a great tale of the fights in tho open. T wish such stories were true; it would he much more fo our liking to meet Fritz in the ojxn than to crouch down in trenches and he shattered liy his artillery. Of course, our artillery causes Fritz to copy our tactics. As the Tommy said when asked what the Gcmans did during a bombardment 'They are duckin' and flivin,’ same as ns.’ The Germans have made a few raids on ns in retaliation for our activity in this respect, but I think we are well ahead on points so far. Jimmy Parr, Jimmy Carroll and a few other M.P.s had a brief glance at our trenches, or at part of them, and you will doubtless have read about it before tills reaches you/'