Lustre penetrate both outer and outer underwear almost instantly, though the hot and burning smart of the skin that follows is somewhat mercifully dulled by the blunting of the senses that follow inhalation of the fumes. Victims of the "mustard" bombs are subject to distressing periods of depression, even at the time of convalescence. Their nerves seem to have been shattered completely beyond control.
Two broad-shouldered Australians of giant stature, victims of "mustard" bombs, were found almost weeping from homesickness, due to their sympathetic depression by a fellow countryman in Trafalgar square, in London while on leave recently. They were soon induced to take a more cheerful view of matters and explained to their temporary host at dinner that the feeling against which they had been fighting was that they didn't have a friend in the world.
On the whole, the voyages of our most recently arrived contingents were comparatively free from submarine attack in the sense of the actual firing of torpedoes, though several ships were compelled to fight off the boats. In one instance, a destroyer convoying a troopship was firing at a submarine on one side while a second undersea craft appeared or was detected near by the destroyer. There was reason to believe that the water bomb dropped by the destroyer at the second submarine was effective in its object.
The voyage from America was made in good time. 