No. 70.
France
26/4/18

Dear Dad,

I have your two letters 24 and 31/3/18 with receipts for oxidizing. Thanks – I will try to get the chemicals if I can get down to night.

I hope to be able to send some photos too. The O.C. wanted some taken and got permission. I rented a camera and made six but have to repeat some of them. Am not sure whether they will be allowed to go out of the country before the war is over or not. Hope so tho.

We are squeezing thro this moon pretty well, foggy nights or a little rain and very little moonlight. Suppose you saw what a big bump the British gave Zeebrugge this week. I never in my life heard such a bombardment. It was fierce and the results seem to be worth while. I am enclosing clippings which may give more details than you get over there.

You certainly had a little run there for awhile, hope that old cuckoo pans out all right, I will miss it.

So you thought that was awful war news last month. Don’t know what you think of what has come since then. It is not as bad as it looks tho and believe me, they are paying a terrible price for what they are able to take.

I wish I had kept an article on the long distance guns. They had three of them placed in a triangular formation and from the photographs taken, they believe a direct hit was made on the muzzle of one, while another is believed to have exploded. The idea was more to break the morale of the French, in which they have not been at all successful.

I did not send my bezel, as I break so many glasses. Owing to the price of glass here, a substitute something like celluloid and called Vitophanie, is being used here as many windows of course get blown out. I got some of this stuff and by putting it just inside the cap of my watch – it is a [?] hunter, you will remember, – it works O.K. The bezel keeps it up off the hands. I wish you would send by reg. mail that gilded Gilette I left in my room. I can sell it over here I think and it is not doing me any good there. I get along fine with the Auto-strop.

Didn’t take you long to get the Bear St. property rented again, I was afraid you would have trouble. Van Geal must be making money to go at it so strong. Some changes all round.

That was Dr. Riddell. The card was returned to me in France after having been around Canada, and I sent it back via Jean, who is now in Toronto.

That daylight saving is fine. I don’t see what objection anyone could have to it.

Had quite a letter from Mir, the other day, she is having the time of her young life. I am very well and not as busy as I was.

Love to all.
Your affectionate son,
Worth.

I used to get a very good bond paper. I think from, Buntin Gillies Old Hamphrie, wasn’t it? – envelopes about 4 x 5”, rather large square and if you can get it, I could use three or four hundred envelopes (100 to a box) and three or four (5 qr) boxes of the paper, but be sure and tell me the net price, as I might be able to sell some.