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28/5/15
My dear wife
Fargher and Rutherford who called to see me yesterday said that the report was so current in Cairo that I had been blown out that they had mentioned it in their letters home. They advised me to cable to you. I told them I had done so. However I have heard it now from so many new arrivals from Egypt that I want to warn you that the same report will filter through in many channels and at various dates, and so cause you a lot of uncertainty and unhappiness. So you will probably hear it again and again in the form of various editions. But you will know it is only the same old yarn. Please send a p[ost] c[ard] to Arthur Liddell, the big man, and ask him to call on you. His son Alf was hit yesterday bathing. He got one shot (shrapnel) through his left hip, and another one broke his left arm below the elbow. I sent him back by Hospital ship to the Base. I don't know which hospital he will land in. Claude Smith and young Russell of Stanwell and about 20 others were bathing with Liddell, and the Turks put half a dozen shells on them. Three of them only were hit. Claude escaped with