This afternoon I has spent with Bob & Reginald. We went to the Judges lodgings were we set out in the garden, & I had a nap.

We could not have tea there, so went to Miss Fursdon’s. Everywhere one goes, we hear Mary’s affair discussed, and they all think she has been unfairly treated. Father is coming up to see the OC & demand an explanation.

This petty row has for the moment dwarfed the bigger row in France, where there has been some terrible fighting and at last a move forward on our part. We have taken 2 ½ miles of trenches & have pushed the line nearly to La Bassee*1. All those however at a terrible hospital life.

We had a fresh convoy of wounded in one day this week. 24, & most of them bad cases.

We heard to day from Miss Fursdon that the Olympic had gone to the Dardanelles with 9,000 men on board, chiefly Yeomanry. She is escorted by aeroplanes & submarines. One of the Fursdons is on board, & wrote to say that they have passed Gib*2 safely.