The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-04-12
DIRECT FROM THE
ENGLISH ARMY.
Frank lanyard, Of Dow City, Receives
Letter From English Trenches,
Where Brother Is Serving
TELLS OF A GERMAN ATTACK
Says the English Army Has More Am.
munition and Are Now Pushing
the Enemy Hard.

Dow City, April 11-(Special to the
Review)-Mr. Frank lanyard received
a letter last week from his brother,
Corporal Stanley lanyard, who is serv-
ing with the English army Somewhere
in northern Fradce." Mr.. Banyard
has been in the .thickest of the fight
for the past few weeks and his letter
tells much of the horrors of war.
Below the letter is printed in full:
No. 1920 Corp. s. lanyard.
Sig. Hdqrs. Coy.
7th Suffolk 3. K. +.
Dear Brother Frank:
At last find half moment to spare
to write a line or so to you, hoping
you are WELL Many thanks for your
letter, which received on the Sd.
was very pleased with it. assure you.
! must first of all tell you am quite
all right myself, for which thank
God with all my heart. There is plen-
ty of fighting on this front now and we
like it better as it will bring the fin
ish quicker. We have BEEN at it a
considerable time now and l think are
doing WELL The Germans appear to
have made a big effort on the French
front. but l think that has broken
down now as they are only attacking
in small numbers. The weather is not
very grand now; plenty of snow, etc,
but not quite so bad as we have known
it. 1t is no use for the Germans to at
tack now as we have more ammunition
than they and are not afraid to use it
either. About three or four days back
we made small attack here and gain.
ed some bit of their trenches. They
have tried to get it back three times.
but we don't allow it. Now that we
have plenty of ammunition it causes
the enemy to use lot more and there
isn't half some stuff banging about
when we attack. First there's the ar
tillery and then the infantry start with
al their different kinds of killing ma
terial. OF course shall have to tell
you all about such doings after the war.
Inow start writing this letter aesin !
This is the 18th and quite q lot. has
happened since l was last writing. 4
was called out rather hurriedly as a.
shell had broken our wire and then
the Germans started bombing at
tack and of course we had to start as
we'll and we have been busy ever
since. We put up some mines and
captured the craters and quite unex-
pectedly we were relieved yesterday
morning and here we are in small
village some way behind the firing
line, having everything we own in
spected to see that they are properly
cleaned up after the mud. etc. from
the trenches. How, where, when or
what we are going to do next is hard
to say as we get our orders very sud
denly.
have had letter or two from
home and they are all quite we'll. Dad
is soon going to start work again. SO
that will be lot better. Please
give my best love to Arthur and his
wife and children and also Edgar.
am going to write to Edgar when
get his proper address from home.
don't think there is much more | can
tell you just now. 1t may interest
you to know | hope to go to a cinema
tonight, which is in division recrea-
ton room here. Please excuse the
dirtiness of the paper as it has tray-
eled about bit. So will say good
bye. with best of love, | am your
loving brother, Stalney.