Friday, September 25, 1942

A SOIDIER’S LETTER

| Views of tt To saw the pit of the

‘fhe following is a very interest. Meeenta, when every mate child
fay letter Jwrltton to tis moter | ¥84 Hliehtered at the pormumand
whd sister, Mra A, Honnesay and Of Herod the bodies wore thrown
Kay, by Sidnoy Hennessy who is into this pl, You see the well

Where Mary and Joseph rested and
the star Jed the
Taechel's tomb. 1
the pool of ethesta
Christ cured the bedridden ertpple

serving with the Australian Morces

in Palestine, wike men

down
where

where
wlao went
1 received Welponie letter to

yesterday, you did not date tt but

your

the post office stamp was Febru. when Me told him “Take un thy
ary, 80 you see it takes a long bed and walk", We walked the way
While for letters to reagh here, tof the eross, they eall tt the “Via
have not received the parcel yet, Dolorosa’? where Cherlat carried
Mum, I got all parcels from home the cross to) Calvary, There th a
except two which Mrs, Lloyd Jones convent of the Plagellation, where
sent, malls are very uncertain now, the old Jerusalem ‘Temple stood
you see by the address that Tam jis now the Mosque of Omar, the
away from my eld anit, Thad bad | big rook altar is stil preserved
Iuok, went to hospital and while | where Abraham went to sacrifice
there my unit moved away, waa jhis son, but} a lamb was offered

in three weeks, just bad a touch | when the angel Intorvenod
of desert fever, am OK now, the] A group of us was taken aut
first time IT have been crook Bet |stde, New Zealanders, South Afrt
tor’s note; Australian expression }oans and Tommies and we had two
t sieK) since being In the army | VADs in the party, the photo
and it had be when the boys [was taken outside the Y, Mo G. A
shifted, 1 Ye not heard where | bullding, tt is in New Jorusalem
they went, it 1 be all for the Jand Js a gift of an Amertean, there
best, | have ono of my mates with |is a tower you can get a wonder-
me he went to hospi & week [ful view all over Jerusalem trom
before me and has only just come | tt top, It was great to satay at
to this camp from convalescent, /an hotel and have a bed to sleep
Have not heard from Dot for two ]on, though one gets used to the
months just wrote her, I} bed boards we have, and a spring
know she} would not forget my {bed seems too soft-They even
birthday and I know that a card }bring you a cup of tea in bed in
is on its way somewhere, whether [the morning, the tea would not
t will s another matter,/pass your standard but it was
ied that she is not} good to us, the meals were quite

|
y letters, there fs no air | good

and plenty of it too, The two
went all too quickly, if T am
able T will the trip again
Well Mum, since I wrote you | before we go, I only thought while

1 now NM we have to expect | days

things now, make

dant Jchavellbeon: to .Gair w the |! was there how great it would be
Pyramids and Sphinxs, tombs of |t have Kath with me seeing a-
the Pharoahs, all very resting |TOund the old biblical places, the
Smreihare. dost cor from | boys would sure envy me, they
two days leave to Jer Haa | Were quite impressed by the photo

® great time and more time than | ¥°U Sent me of you and Kath in

last year to see the sights. I went

out to Bethlehem, went to the | with a few of my treasured snaps.
church of the Nativity which is So sorry to hear business has
built over the place where Christ | fallen off, you sure have worked
Was born, you see the grotto where hard, Won't we all be glad when
the birth took place, marked by a|this srife is over, Yes Mum, you

star, then just off from it is the

aren't as young as you used to be,
Chapel of the manger, a big marble | but I reckon you are good for an-
slab the

crib have

mari

spot where the|other twenty years, they say the

stood, enclosed some! best guarantee for a long life is to

the garden, I carry it in my wallet |

The Semiahmoo Sun

have long
tat but for
Nave Hit f

brand
would

lived parents,
the npetdent
sentry nek,

Vet's lane we will have « pennion Jenny

ih the near futtve.

A short Une ago a woman In a
ventricled arew village, told a. vial-
tor there Wan to be a rald peatnst
next week, heen “the
Mankatires have just gene from

|

Vin ay Fit ae a fie myself, the | here." |

apen Alp alwoya did
Wie, | could never stand a whut tr
life again, 1 often wonder tow the
old solng, [ suppose it in
all to Laniame and home again,
1 wonder how he will Iike
army life, 1 don't think his
is called up hut tt
tine, THe did
to Join wp
he wan't

Preds
|

the
class

yet,

ja only a
tell mo he
when I

matter of
like
but

would wha

home too
but

woy of tt

keen on

the army

fall in’ th

discomforts, he will

and not
T got
tised to rouehing It long hefore the
in ny

(rem,

hotice them when he has to

war days winderinge in

the bush, "TY remember
Ohad
hla
him

nber)

you ulywas! (anya y
to hear Pat atarted
all the of

and I do hope he makey good,

W.

has on

own, best luck to
Give my love to Mabel when you
love to see

the child-

write or see her. I'd

them all, m: and

ren, I'm going to raise a family
when T get home, we will look up
the local orphanage, Ha Ha.

We went for a swim this even-
ing in the blue Mediterranian, but
it is not a ch on the great
Pacific, how I would like to surf

at Manly now or even Bondi would

do. Well Mother, I will say cheerio
for the present, wishing you lots
of luck and hoping the winter will
be kind to you, we had a taste
of a Canadian winter in Syria
this year, when we were snowed
in. Trust you got the letter and
snow snaps I sent you. Love to

you) Kath, hoping you just
fine (that’s Canadian meaning just
heaps of luck. Thanks
long Mum,
have tried to do as you requested
| this time. So all my loye.

| From your loving son and brother,
| Sid,

are

fine) and

for your nice letter

selves”;
‘ployment who get it, not those who

it is those who seek em-

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WHEN LOVE IS SUBVERSIVE
One important enemy agent

And that's why warning signs, |
‘Don't tell her," hang wherever:
Combined Operations men gather,
It isn't that the soldiers tell
their wives and sweethearts were
jthey’re being moved and when.
They simply write “don’t worry”
which can give more
than they realize to

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Nazi spies.
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not hear from me for a bit. 'm
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“Goodbye for the present, sw:
heart. I'm going to have

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had fod

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The plot writer of
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and

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