REPORT OF SALVATION ARMY ADJUTANT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13718, 23 June 1915, Page 3

REPORT OF SALVATION ARMY ADJUTANT.

I (Per Press Association.) WEUJNGTON, thi 8 day. Lieutenant-Colonel Powley (Chief Secretary of tho Salvation Army) lhas received a most interesting . letter from Adjutant Greene, late of Wellington, who is acting as the Salvati6n' Army Chaplain m Egypt. In his "letter, the adjutant says :- — > ,' • , . "I am being appointed to meet the hospital ships anu do what I eanfor tho wounded as they come to hand until the base is established further forward. In the meantime, my post will be at Alexandria, and running between there and. Cairo as occasion requires, and,. by this means, get into touch with vast numbers of troops, and probably be more useful than at a post with a battalion. .Many Grounded have comeback, and, having visited them, much, of, interest iuus been gathered m the way of individual incidents. Those who have come back are all slightly wounded, and will be fit to return m a week or two. Our people take great care of those who fall with wounds. } The hospital -trains are beautifully equipped,; and the beat buildings are taken and fitted as hospitals, the attendance being all that can be desired, "Our nation is one worthy of our best service for the' best consideration is »h<iw.n to those m need. "Later. — I have just returned to my tent after a .very busy, but interesting day. It is vow 10 p.m. Part of my duty has been looking up the wounded officers and men ,of my regiment, who have returned. They got it hot. Many of the boys whom I knew intimately ai - e gone. The wounded men are m great glee, and are all looking forward to getting back on Monday morning. '*!' hay^ my first funeral from the tent this afternoon — Private Piper, of the Otago Regiment."