Some fifty officers of the Territorials spent last week-end on
an exercise in Dorset. They were quartered, under arrangements made by the local military authorities, in a Bournemouth hotel, most of them sleeping two or three in a room. They were given an in- adequate breakfast, very badly served, a small packet of unappetising sandwiches for lunch and—at 6.30 p.m.—a vile "dinner." For a cup of tea, with nothing to eat, they had to pay ninepence. The hotel was not licensed. For this accommodation they were charged twenty-eight shillings a day. Bournemouth is a town so largely dependent on the good name of its hotel proprietors that the appro- priate local association might do worse than look into this clear case of profiteering at the expense of men who are patriotic enough to give up their spare time to their country's service.
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