AFTERMATH OF WAR.
The following are extracts from a letter from Oajptai'n C. J. A. Griffin. R>.A.M.C., who is m command of a cavalry ajnbulance unit on the Western front: — "Yesterday I went for a long drive m a motor ambulance to get supplies from. British Red Cross stores. It was a very interesting drive. . : "We passed through a belt where the French fought so fiercely last year for every yard of ground. The whole earth here has been, churned up /and turned over and over again. It is just indescribable. Shell-holes overlap each other, and through them runs a labyrinth of old battered trench systems. Scattered everywhere are the remains of barbedWire entanglements, and. all the wreckage of war material. , "Dotted here and there are rusty rifles fixed upright m the ground, each one surmouoteoV by_ ahe'met, marking a soldier's grave. The villages are, mere heaps of rubbish ; not apportion of a wall remains. The woods simply stand as short, splintered, shattered stumps. A rank growth of wild flowers fortunately helps to clothe the nakedness of the awful desolation. None but a looker-on can imagine what the countryside is like." '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14391, 1 September 1917, Page 3
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