Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Coulson for the manner in which he. Executed the order.

Cots, mattresses, sheets, pillows, and other articles of the kind required for the' Field Hospitals were not in the market, and had to be manufactured to order. They were put in hand on the same day, (sunday) and on Wednesday, the eighth, the complete equipment of Number One Field Hospital was shipped by car attached to, mail train, and reached Winnipeg on the morning of the Tuesday following, The equipment of Field Hospital N o. 2 was despatched within a few days after, and the reserve supplies early in the following week.

Much of the equipment of the Field Hospitals it was found necessary to obtain flom New Y01k, and I must here gratefully acknowledge the rapidity and accu racy with which 001. Gil ard filled my orders, and forwarded everything required from that city for No. 1 Hospital, so as to reach Montreal in time to be shipped. Upon the same train with the stores from that city.

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