Purchases Cannot Stop.
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We pointed out, at some length, in our issue of last week, that demands for extra comforts will be maintained throughout the summer months, and that the men of the A.S.C., M.T, now rapidly approaching a total of 20,000 in strength, cannot be suddenly cut off because the winter is nearly over. We have, of course, quite properly, spent the greater portion of our Fund on winter comforts.
The war is going on, despite individual optimistic views to the contrary. The mon of the A.S.C., M.T., have very much harder work ahead of them than has fallen to their lot during the past four or five months, trying though that has been. They will be farther from their b-ases, and calledlupon to travel backwards and forwards under conditions which may vary daily. We have reason to believe that the dust on some roads will be little short of appalling—that it will remind those who experience it of the conditions on many English highways 12 and 14 years ago, when