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SOUVENIRS FROM THE FRONT

Mrs. W. G. Birney is in receipt of a letter from her husband, serving with the Field Ambulance corps on the battlefields of France, enclosing a unique souvenir. It is a portion of an oiled paper balloon, which the German socialists are using to distribute literature among the Hun soldiers.

The socialists implore the soldiers to quit fighting, saying it is a useless struggle in which only the wealthy benefit while the families of the soldiers are suffering want and privation, that piles of German dead, as high as straw stacks, are back of the firing line, that Germany's commerce is a dead issue, her fleet a failure and the only end one of degradation and disgrace to the nation. The letter also contained a bunch of pressed flowers gathered on the field of Ypres.