NAVAL BRIGADE IN HOLLAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 745, 13 February 1915, Page 6

NAVAL BRIGADE IN HOLLAND.

Commodore Wilfred Henderson, who is in command of the naval brigade interned in Holland, writes as follows on Novemrea 17tb, 1914: "lit was crushing bad luck to be "run out" so early in our innings, but we refuße to be downhearted," and away back in our minds we all cherish a firm conviction, although we cannot explain it, that the wheel of fortune will take some turn which will release us before the war ends. We just muse have our revenge for Antwerp. Thank you for the papers you havS bo kindly been sending. - Thanks to generous response to my appeal, we now have an excellently stocked library, and I am asking people not to send us any more literature except current illustrated papers and daily papers posted not later than tbe day after issue. I have succeeded in arranging here for a daily English edition of the local paper; so we get all the telegraphic war news served up hot every evening. My greatest difficulty is providing "useful occupation" for the 1 men, and the best thing I have hit on is knitting warm garments. I Save a department knitting warm garments which gives over fifty men occupation. If you feel inclined to help us a little you could not do better than send us a parcel of wool, either khaki, brown, blue or natural shade. I have carpenters, tailors, barbers and bootmakers' shops in full swing now; I hope to start a net-making department, as we have many fishermen. Besides this, I have a few sporadic departments making knick-knacks. One man is inlaying pipeß as momentoes. I must keep the men employed, or else they will run to seed mentally and physically.