A French landscape under snow: a detachment of our infantry, with full equipment, on the march. President Wilson's own countrymen have no difficulty in perceiving from his address to Congress that the United States and Germany are already virtually at war, although Congress has yet to give the President formal authority to exercise the powers of his office in that sense. In the meantime, however, seeming inconsistencies are forgotten in the courage of the President's first real war-speech. He arrived in Egypt on November 13, 1915, his twenty-first birthday and joined the 13th platoon of the 14th (South Otago) Company. •Woman workers on farms in the Wanganui district are doing their share towards helping the Empire in this time of trouble.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 03, 2017 18:05 UTC