A letter to " Shanghai resident gives the following description one of England's foremost watering laces on the east coast Soldiers are billeted in all the houses in our road, and we look like a vast barracks. Ministers' houses, like doctors' and business houses, are immune, because they are so necessary for the continuance of effective work. We, of course were willing to take our share, but we were passed over. However, the whole road looks something between a slum and a barracks, and it is the same over the whole of-. Talk about noise and hubbub and drills and marching and saying farewells to the daily trainloads that leave for the front!... This town has nine thousand inhabitants and at preseat there are billeted no less than 2,000 troops, and the strength is to be brought up to 40,000. One short street will perhaps have to take 300, and live themselves as best they can for room. Some houses, taken over altogether, sleep 100 or more men—on the bare floor, of course, You have a short notice that by such and such a time one room or two, as the case and necessity may be, will be required, and must be cleared for the use of troops. Compensation is being paid, and some are glad of the
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