BELGIAN AND SERVIAN WOUNDED RELIEF SOCIETY. Mrs. Wotton has received a letter from Miss Dormer Maunder, dated 6th August, 1918, which reads: — "It is with much gratitude and thanks that I am writing to acknowledge another case of clothing and gifts from your Society. The clothing is always so acceptable, and the colours for the children give them such pleasure. I was very grateful for the personal gift of scented soap, which is Quite unprocurable here. In the case was also a packet of loaf sugar, a luxury which I had cot had' for months, being also unprocurable, although I have a sugar ticket, there is no sugar in the country. j "I enclose you a paper account of the raid, a night's heavy shelling; j it was terrible, a whole block of the^ R.Q. of French Ambulance limit was i in a heap of bricks and timber, two of the Red Cross orderlies were killed, and several wounded; that is only 30 yards or so from my "fort-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17397, 7 October 1918, Page 7
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