The Press Bureau has at last made a statement & gives our casualties as 15,000. In a very few words it describes how we had kept back the Germans, although we have been obliged to retreat. They have failed in their effort to break our connection with the French.

Bad news from the sea. The Pathfinder, a light cruiser has gone. Blown up by a mine with the loss of many hands HMS Pathfinder.

After lunch we went into Tavistock. John Trelawney came in with us & went off home.

Daisy Smith broke her arm badly this morning. M & I rushed about Tavistock trying to find a doctor. Dorothea, who had been to Plymouth, came home with us. She had been to the hospital in which are the wounded soldiers, had taken them some apples. She was full of a tale that Lord Kitchener has gone to the front.

When we got home we found Mr Sparling here. He had come to see Dorothea about S.S.F.A. Mr Morshead, who had been here shooting told Reginald that Tom Woolcombe was invalided home with rheumatic fever. He had been in the Battle of Mons.

The Morsheads have heard from Henry from Port Said so after all, he is not at the front.