The Germans are overrunning Romania & soon it will cease to exist as a nation even as Serbia and Belgium.

In the Times yest was an account of what the Naval; Brigade has done at the Battle if the Ancre, very praiseworthy work & much heroism.

On Thursday was a Bottom Shoot, Mr Hillyard as usual came & cheered us all up. I was unable to go to it on account of a tiresome cold.

On Monday last Dorothea & I went to Landue to lunch. Afterwards we were shown the needlework done by the Lezant people for the Red Cross. The result of 6 weeks work, it covered the billiard table. Every week since Aug 1914 [unreadable] people met there to work, except for 6 weeks when the Belgians in the Laundry had scarlet fever, the result is that they have been able to send up a steady supply of garments &c to various hospitals.

The Tregonnings supply the money & the people do the work. Sophy manages it & gives up most of her time to it – a really useful way of spending it.