for that job, but a good many did for Siberia. I suppose the cold in those latitudes would be intense, & I don't think it makes a particularly inviting drawing card for most chaps. I expect the expedition to Siberia will have to go by way of Vancouver & Vladivostok. Since the C's have been in action again, there has been quite a thinning out of officers here, & one has had more room in the mess to turn but yesterday another 30 cadets officers arrived from Bexhill to take the next gun course which

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