A letter recently received in Christ, church gives an indication of the ruthless and vanton destruction of the Huna in the localities they have recently evacuated, "fhe writer, describing the country now in possession of the New Zealand troops, says: "There are some lovely oak trees which the 'unspeakable Hun' carefully ring-barked before he left," He crouched in a doorway, hungry and cold, Homeless and hopeless and sad; I could see at a glance he needed help, That no friend in the world he had, So I gave him a crown and choice cigar, And advised him strong drink to abjure: Ha moaned his need was p. bed and a feed, And Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18357, 2 June 1917, Page 6
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