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Show 'News From the I War Zone I J, D. Tliomo Writes To Ills Friends I In I'leasnnt (Jroic. ,Vo doubt tlie people of America I ire a great deal like we are here, I waiting every mall to boo what tho news Is from tlio war zone, and while I those In England are not expcrlenc-I expcrlenc-I log tho blunt or the war like those in M Belijum and France, Btlll wo see enough to know that one of tho grent-I grent-I est wars known (o this world Is now I king waged. I Our conference here seems to be I so located that those In charge feel I like It Is about tho most dangerous I part of all England. No alien is allowed to leave or go Into a town without special permit from pollco headquarters, nnd every one hos to he registered. I am pleused to sny thnt wo have been able to make friends with the police department, and I had the pleasure of preaching the gospel to them, reading some of our books. 1 had the plcasuro also of giving one of tho chlcrs n book of Mormon, Lowestoft Is located on tho sea front, Just a short distance from Norwich, wd many of tho survivors of somo of the 111 fated shlpcs that have been lutik by tho Germans, wcro landed there, Friday, Octobor lCth, we wlt-cjscd wlt-cjscd one of tho sad scones of the war, when ono hundred wore brought to Norwich. Tho snmo day somo of me ranges rrom Ostend, who had reached hero In fishing smaks nnd boats, landed at Lowestoft. This certainly cer-tainly wahn pitiful sight. They had been without food for thirty-six hourB and wero filled like snrdeens In a can. Part of theso wcro half clad, and to lee llttlo children on the pier who had even sepnnted from tholr father and mother, crying nnd clinging to each other, mndo ono think is there not room for tho gospel to bo preached. preach-ed. In the rush for boats tho children chil-dren Imd been separated from their parents, and no one know Just whore their nr rents wcro. Another man with eight children had been separated from his wife, and perhaps sho landed t some other fihoro or did not get iway at nil. This is n condition thnt as brought about In u fow hours mong n hnlf million people. I am pleased to say that tho people of Lowestoft did everything In tholr Power to mako things comfortable 'or them In their short stay there, They wore soon put on trains nnd nt to other towns, ns they aro not allowing nny of tho refuges in nn of the const towns. Sunday night again brought us one hundred more wounded to Norwich, md among them was ono Gemnn, and oiy heart wont out for him, as I enn to. glno Just how ho felt among n hostile people, ns us ciders hnvo Just fnd a little of thnt to put up with, Howovor, I bollovo ho will bo well Heated If ho bo n soldier, but If a spy. then thcro is not much hopes for him. Well, we hnvo been nblo to seo a llttlo of tho effects of war and I hope we don't hnvo to seo very much more Hoping to soon bo with you nil J remain, Yours very turly, J. D. THORNE. |