"You ask* me^'^u'ibfe^ a soldier who is iti 'the; midst of the fighting on the Somtntf} '■if-.'vi'e! ever' .hear 1 any 1 af'-. tjfe thea(tHtdl'^/t!ortcei # fc .parties "'^lio coiiie out fi'd^^igldnd. ■^Veli; hardly .m this part I*o^"*th#:iine—it's1 * o^"*th# : iine— it's far too "hot foi' tHemV butjpe?hiive some. 'very decent imprd!lipft|i'c*#e^rtW. -One; a fow days -ago, >vhioli <ir& ■tjiSl'f-ift M\<bH\ Vijlage' UaJl Was v^i^ : im^i-est^ig^ Halt^M-a^ through tlie second^ sp^s j^the ) fldor' > > l >ga> llee1 c' i^ftyf' and' drdppw#t(|p?|he; aiiaience^abo^t* t^elye feet -$fc f <fie> -cellar • The' platform remaJined" iwy*^; N<£>-'6ne ; 'Wa9 " hilrt; and when we were ceirtaih we could' go no lower it was f un j^ *° look up at the artists' faces. The fellows who were near the wall. had grabbed gas brackets and) wejre still hanging there like so may pictures." Yes, we have 'some' cou-cei-ts on the Somme." .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14213, 2 February 1917, Page 5
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