WOUNDED SOLDIERS' ARREARS OF PAY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR.") common with all your readers, I have found an added charm in the Spectator through its discovery of "A Student in Arms." You last week dealt with his somewhat trenchant strictures upon military hospital treatment, and I only write a line now as to his remarks upon the unfortunate delays in the obtaining by wounded soldiers of their amaze of pay. I believe the delays are becoming leas frequent, and, speaking as a county secretary of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society, I can say that it has all along been the practice of the Society to make weekly advances, pending payment of the arrears, in eases which have come under their rare. While this does not, of course, remove the injustice of long delay, it does in some measure at any rate mitigate its hardship.—
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