The Work of the Censor.

This article from ‘The Times’ dated 12th May 1915, gives an amusing anecdote with regard to the work of the censors.

You have to admire the soldiers pluck trying his luck with a variety of women!

A Soldiers Love Letters.

"Describing the work of the Church Army among our troops at a meeting in Queens Hall, the Matron said that though 450 men had passed through the war hospital in Northern France in the last nine months there had been only three deaths.

One of the chaplains said that as the men got free stationery and postage they wrote to everybody they knew. The speaker acted as censor and 1,600 letters came to him in one day. He found that one soldier had written to four different girls, all in the same strain, using the same endearing adjectives and only varying the name at the beginning. The censors work was made more awkward as there was the need to put back the letters in the right envelopes.

Bishop Taylor-Smith, Chaplain General to the forces, who presided, said that as he went from place to place in the homeland and on the other side of the Channel he found everywhere promise for the good work of the Church Army. There was no need which the Government could not supply in regard to huts or recreation rooms and tents that was not supplied by the Army."