"REAL SOAP AND WATER."

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15313, 29 July 1915, Page 8

"REAL SOAP AND WATER."

LETTER FROM LIEUTENANT- : COLONEL FENWICK. ' < Lipnt.-Coloncl Fcnwick, R.A.M.C. of Christchurch. who was jxiven a few ■> days' f-pell in the early part of June, < wrote to his wife of his experiences as f. follows on June Btb : — j "I am having such a good timo ona ! big baths, sheets in bed, and < tablecloths at meals. I return to duty next Saturday. I am very fit and c well, but quite thin, thinner than you t have ever seen mc." 1 June lOtii. —"We are locked up on 1 this boat as there Ls too much wind to 1 row ashore. 1 got two packs of cards - and play Patience in the smoking-room, a

There ar© only five officers in this huge boat, and you can imagine we feel lost. I am much fitter how; my waist is 30 inches and my weight a little over 10s t. W© all wish this awful war was over, but it is in God's hands, and w*» are ! doing our plain duty. I got a fireman to wash mv only towel. I had been nsinrr it fo 1 six woeka. and it was BLACK. June 11th.—"I am just off back after a week's splendid holiday. I am very fit and well, and clean after a week's baths—real soap and fresh water. I got a fireman to do some washing for mc, co am terribly well off."