LETTER FROM A MERCHANT SEAMAN
(The writer of this letter has since returned safely to the Dominion, after nine months ii? the Merchant Service.) Somewhere, at Sea, 13/11/42. May be yon have forgotten this wandering salt-sea sliishio who used to be credit with a little intellect. Well, anyway, lam still alive. The world has undergone many strange changes since we wore together' in Christchurch last. I he..rd with dismay the decision of Vichy Franco to resist our occupation of north. Africa. The french do not seem even yet, to trust the Allies...l saw the last effort of Vichy France to hold out in Madagascar. They fought us tooth and claw.Howover, thank God it is all over now. Won’t I be pleased to step ashore agin in Nev; Zealand. Of course the Merchant liavy has given me a great chance to see the world (what*# left of it) for which I am profoundly grateful, Whatever the future has in store, 1 will never lose faith that some day, somehow or other, this man—cideated nightmare will disappear, and then - the dawn of a now era for Mankind. . • . , We have a monkey aboard ship called Jacko. He is very small our ala si very agile. So active was ho the other day that he sprang through my cabin window and stole several letters I h«d written. When I I«st saw them they were dancing like autumn leaves in the wind. But monkeys will be monkeys, I guess. • • Our Special Reporter has some good harvesting "scoops" and others for our next issue. Ask J—— —-about the. -.flying pigs ....And then there’s (no, we’ll have to leave it until our next number to be pubsee /-a TTr • •
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Rangiora Gunner, Issue 4, 20 January 1943, Page 7
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