THE REALITIES OF WAR
A Balclutha l)oy who had visited England on several occasions lately gave some interesting particulars to a Leader representative of the trials at I resent being suffered by the populace at Home. "People in New Zealand don't know there's a war on," he said. "They would have a little of the terrible realities of the war if Zeppelins visited our shores or submarines endangered our shipping to anything like the extent they do in the North Sea. People in England are now feeling the pinch; food is ofttimes well nigh unprocurable, and most are longing for an end of the struggle. There is the greatest contrast between the life of the average man in New Zealand at the present day and the citizens at Home. The New Zealander might just as well be a citizen of a neutral nation. One needs to see the tremendous number of maimed and broken soldiers that Ute to be found in almost all English cities to really get any idea of the effect of war upon'an army."
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13751, 26 April 1918, Page 3
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