(To TIM EDITOR Or Tea " SPEOTLTOR.1 herewith enclose copy
of letter from Colonel Purchas to Lord Desborough, which I shall be glad if you will insert in your paper.—I am, Sir, &o.,
Royal Courts of Justice, W.C.
"Ordnance Office, Didcot, 30th November, 1915.
DEAR LORD Mtn-mow:IL—On Sunday, the 28th, the con- tingents of the Volunteer Training Corps, some COO men, again did yeoman service in the Didcot Ordnance Depot. The work performed comprised the loading up of 14 railway trucks, and the off-loading of 215 railway trucks: the packing of vehicles, pontoons, &o., oft-loaded and the stowing away in the storehouses of other stores. Besides this there were some 5,600 drums of oil stacked, and some 2,000 articles painted. The work performed was a great relief to the congestion in the Depot. I fear the work is much more likely to increase in the immediate future than to decrease. My great hope is that the patriotic devotion, zeal, and health of members of the Corps will enable them to continue coming during the winter months. Your Lordship knows from practical experience the great hardships that the members of the Corps have to bear in the course of their work, and the deep mire in which much of it is carried on. This must give them some idea of what their brothers in the trenches have to endure,--I am, my Lord, your obedicah Servant, C. Ptraorras."
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