"One lonely soldier in the trenches, said Mr. Hobhouse.
Postmaster- General, speaking at Bristol last night, advertised for
correspondents in a newspaper, and three days later 3.000 letters, 6 bags of
small parcels, and 90 large parcels were delivered to him. If all soldiers did
the same the postal system would break down."
“As I -write, a telegram comes to hand from the
Director-General asking if the British Post Office have allowed free postage or
postage at a lower rate than to the public on parcels sent by any Red Cross or
other institu- tion in United Kingdom for members of the British Expeditionary
Force. I have never heard of any such concession and hope to find that the
British Post Office has not done anything of the kind, as our parcel post service
is already overtaxed and from the statistics given at the beginning of this
diary it will be clear that there is no need to give the troops any further facilities
for receiving parcels.”
“Mr. Roderick informs me that he has been given two months
leave, and to his regret will not get back to work until the 5th of May. He has
asked me to move the medical authorities to reconsider his case and let him
back sooner, but I have replied that nothing I can say or do is likely to
influence the decision of a medical board. “
“Barton Wright has been given one month's medical leave. He
will return to India at the expiry of it.”
“B. N. Karve. who was wounded in the arm by a bomb thrown
from an aeroplane is still in hospital in France, but continues to make good
progress and should soon be well enough.”
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