We have lost a destroyer & a torpedo boat of the E coast by a mine, the destroyer was HMS Coquette*1.

Germany & Portugal are now at war.

General Smuts*2 is getting on in E Africa & THE French are still holding their own at Verdun.

Yesterday Janet & I & Miss Moore went to a meeting in Tavstock on Women’s Work on the land, Sylvia Hamlyn spoke remarkably well.