There has been an advance in the Dardanelles but with fearful loss of life. Constantinople is as far off from being taken as it ever was & to think that at one time we thought its fall was only a matter of a few days.

Great efforts are to be made now over the making of munitions, & there is to be a registry of every man, woman & child above the age of 15, so as to see what labour there is available for munition making.

In the meantime my life of a hospital goes on as usual, except that my temper is getting shorter. People irritate me more, & I irritate the others, it is the long hours with nothing to do that gets on all our nerves. Mary I have not seen lately as she went home for a couple of days.