SOLDIERS' EFFECTS. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16212, 15 May 1918, Page 9

SOLDIERS' EFFECTS. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Sir, —My only child was billed in action at Passchendaele on October 12th, 1917. I have received notice of his place of burial, and to-day I have also received his will extracted from his pay-book. But the numerous little personal effects such as the dinry, and prayer-book, etc., which, would be /so unutterably precious to me, I have heard nothing of. Not one thing of his have I had sent to me. Can you, or one of your readers, tell me how I can get these? —Yours, etc., „ A SOLDIER'S MOTHER. May 13th. ("Communicate with the C.D.C., Hereford street, and they will write to tho Returned Soldiers' Effects Distribution Board, Wellington, for you.—Ed. "The Press."J THE MANILA BAY INCIDENT. TO THE EDITOR OV "THE PRESS " Sir, —It is not often that I reply to an anonymous letter, but as I am given tho lie direct, I feel I must answer such.

In the first place I never said in my letter that the flagship fired on a German. warship. As a late service man I know better than that, and whilo it is quite correct that Sir Ed. Chichester was senior Officer and in command of the Immortalite, the first lieutenant of that ship said that he transferred his flag to the Bonaventure at the time in question. Tho account, as I gavo it in "The Press," is as it was printed in the "Naval and Military Record" a few months later. I have such by me and "Facts, not Fancy" can . see the cutting if he will do mo the honour of a call. Major-General Younghusband wrote a story book in whicji the incident is quoted, but it is not correct.—Yours, etc., E. ELIOT CHAMBERS. Lato Lieutenant R.N. May 14th.