CAMP FIXTURES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16266, 17 July 1918, Page 9

CAMP FIXTURES.

ij.- to the editor or "the pbess." k Sir, —Can anyoue inform mo why |*9 m c of tho First Division men are allowed to stay in camp fifteen and eighmonths, whilst others are only Ifflere for a few weeks before being despatched to the front? Daring the Bjerant snow storm, I know of several KFirst Division men, owners of bheep fjgfrPß; who applied for a few days' leave, |*> that they might assist in getting

tlicir sheep out of the snow, wliicli. in some instances, was three and four teet deep; but their request was refused, as thev were told their date of sailing was j drawing near, and tho men were urirentlv needed at tho front. I onsenuentlv" many sheep were left to starve or pot attended to by anyone *do\vaß tjenorous enough to spare a little time from their own flocks. And yet there are strong, able-bodied men T/ho iinve been in camp fifteen and ;i£hteen months, who have no sheep or farm, or anv other responsibility, and tliev ore left there, whilst these sbeep owners fin many cases the last man on the larm) have to sacrifice everything and <-o off to the front after being m camp onlv 11 few weeks. I ask, wnere ithe sense or reason of it all, and -vho >s responsible for it? Since the neinne required ho urgently, why not send them all. and not only those who cs.n least be spared? As one whosejciatives and friends arc all at the yont, most of whom have been killed or wounded, I would liko to know why | these men are kept in camp.—lours, I ONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.