AT BUSTARD CAMP.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 9

AT BUSTARD CAMP.

A DAY WITH CANADA'S

" -CONTINGENT.

JSpecial Correspondent of the "Man-chcs-er.Guardian."'} - - ,*" At Lark's Hill, a hare knoll on ..Salisbury Plain, hail-way between Amesbury and Bustard Camp, tbo wooden "winter quarters of the Cana- • dians aro nearly ready. The Canadians are eagerly looking for the day when they can leave their wet and chip j tents for these stout sheds, which resemble, rows of derelict railway -arriages. , On "such a day as this, when a frost--dged wind is scything over the Plain, you can sympathise. The men from the West don't mind loneliness, although thoy say that Salisbury Plain heats Calgary way for that, and at ■ Lark's" Hill they will bo a bit nearer such company as tho thatched village of Amesbury can offer. •"* What they abuso most heartily ia the English damp. "It's-the wet blanket business that- does for us/" thoy •*"■- Nevertheless, they are happy lader canvas, in' 6pite of a solid month of such dirty weather that they have "ftten worn wot clothes for days. The iSSV •* " tnDro na3 been singularly uule sickness is evidence of iou_-bt ; oodles and stout hearts. - f j, A werrier place you could not find -flan Bustard Camp, pitched in a misty jj'P of tho Plain and almosfc within j"*"! of Stoiiehenge— a . place where " »•■. r6 , ls "•othtng living within ten *"«a but _heep. After crossing so *ca»y blank miles of downland, it is . •--"? een ''6 to come upon the friendly «» gtowing througli the haze and the *""■♦"•-" tents pressing together, as it ior comfort. Tim first contingent of men scatter•w in lour camps over a dozen miles of «___?" ls made "I" of picked men from ___ 7 anad ' an militia, regiments. "I f__. V? pass ten separate doctors be- " «*» they let mc in," said one mag»»f?" , ,0 _ kil, S fe!lo,v lome " One is ■ _£¥ omt> , <1 t0 flattering descriptions of &»«..* *A*-s"q"e of our soldier. These ~***a*-ia-i_ really are superb specimens cJt;<_. e *-""i ho ,loxrcr of th o youtfc of the V**™* and prairies. ■ ' -A^I re . " n c * ,ni P is » group of rougb--1 3n_l »?. tho West - there a lot of V S_bf lo ** s from oSces " first-rate "V. ofTtt ' an<3 m a corner are the tents _'Pa__» T . cracii regiment—"Princess •* - -_"<"*ll J }' er y man in it is a seasoned '-■--■■2_/d * aad moiii of thera n '« r *» through V *Sli n r VVar " The "Princess Pat's" T-'-Tftil the r ' ,m o ur th-t, they are to *■"*___.. to France much earlier than A co ™™ 7of Canadian HfS^-' a J !c ' er " i comes at a swinging walk l^_.__2 c . h . tbo camp, tall, hefty men ™K_s. Wa W aprous "over the kilt, 'W b_- dnimi; and fifos.