LETTER FROM ENGLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 3

LETTER FROM ENGLAND.

EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR IN BRITAIN. A Taranaki resident has received the following letter from London, under date August 7th The excitement hero over the war is terrible; food i> getting so scarce and dear. You will reap a harvest by sending over your frozen mutton in larger supplies, loi we must have food. I see by the papers New Zealand and Australia are to do all they possibly can by sending over food supplies to help to relieve things. You will have hoard by now that your army and navy in New Zealand and Australia are coming over to help Great Britain to light the Germans. We are at present busy with our navy in the North Sea. So with the help of the Allies and our Colonies we are bound in time to complete!:-, wreck the mighty German army. Tbej have longed to get at us, so chose the fir. c opportunity. At Felix to we. or the east coast of England, which face; the North Sea, the people have beer ordered out of their houses hy the Government to make room 'or the sol diers who are guarding the coast. A 1 soldiers, reserves, volunteers, scouttevery man who can hold a gun--.-ha-been called up, ami everyone is willit-,. to go and do tlioh duty. I see by the Scotsman to-day that Ediuburgn h thrilling with soldiers march nr through tho streets,with martial t-iha to tho strain of the bagpipes, en roue • r the front. Eoyal Scotland! Ex-tn pound notes and ten-shilling note; have been issued for the use of Unpeople, keeping all gold to pay tin soldiers. There isn’t a creature far o near, but is looking anxious at thi terrible time. A letter from Abc-deei states that food is very dear, sugar 6d per lb; everything has gone up accordingly ; no coals to bo got but what you can carry on your back, all tin horses of any uso being away to th< front. Everything is at a standstill; hundreds out of work. Schools am halls are converted into hospitals. Ole men and women who have seen tin country pass through the crisis of few wars say this is the worst smcc flic battle of Waterloo.