The papers are starting an agitation to get the Canadians to march through London, and are asking why they should be smuggled in and then shut up on Salisbury Plain. They want to see us, and we want to see London!!
Our ambulance car has been used every day since we came here, taking wounded from one hospital to another. The rest of our cars have been used to carry German prisoners.
One of the spies caught on the ships is said to have been shot. Several were arrested; two were caught in Devonport while we were there, one in a Canadian officer's uniform.
Am spending seventy-two hours' leave in London. Got leave through this telegram which is from “the girl I'm engaged to”:
Disappointed. Met train. Please do come. Leaving for Belgium soon. Love.
Edythe.
She is a Red Cross nurse. This is a new one and it worked. McCarthy sent it to me.
London is very dismal. No electric signs, and the tops of all the street lamps are painted black so that the lights don't show from above. However, we managed to have a [pg 041] good time, in spite of it all. The Germans say that the Canadians are being held in England to repel the invasion.