LETTER TELLS OF TERRIBLE BATTLE OF THE ORCHARD

WRITER LAY IN SHELL CRATER AT YPRES OVER DYING OFFICER DURING BULLET HAIL.

"IF WE BREAK THROUGH, GOD HELP THE GERMANS"

"We Need the Munitions, Not the Men, Says Letter--Trench Warfare is Just Plain Sordid Murder.

In the most vivid letter yet received from the battle front of France, the Canadian soldier whose letters to his friend her The Journal has published previously tells of the terrible "Battle of the Orchard." It is signficant that the account of this battle, the bloodies yet fought on this front, reached the American papers only a few days ago. The writer of the letter charged with the company which lost 85 out of 124 of its men, and was wounded in the action. His description probably gives a better conception of trench warfare than any yet published in this country. The letter follows.

"Somewhere in France, June 22, '15. "My Dear Lorne: "Yours of 30th of May just arrived, and as I have had a couple of hours leisure before we move into the trenches tonight, will improve my time. I think I gave you a full account of the battle I was in the end of April and the first four days of May. As accounts have been published long ago, I may, without fear of the censor say it was Langemarck--Ypres. Since then we have had five spells in the trenches. You will have read of the Canadian attack on an orchard near Fesbubert, May 20th, and that is the worst business we have seen. We lost, I may say since the casualty lists are out 415 men out of 800. My company got badly mauled, eighty-five out of 124. We got 5 machine guns 'hosing' on us as we crossed the parapet of the first German trench.