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by the Board of Pension Commissioners when a pensioner is called into a centre for re-examination.

RE-ATTESTATION RULING
Treatment is Free providing Disability Due to Service.
No distinction exists between discharged soldiers who have been overseas and those who have not in respect of their rights under P.C. 508, the order in-council designed to permit the re-attestation for treatment of discharged soldiers suffering a recurrence of disability due to service. The point frequently arises in outlying districts, and confusion has occurred once or twice due to imperfect understanding of the order. The man is entitled to re-attestation whether he has been overseas or not, so long as the disability from which he suffers is certified by the medical officer to be due to service.

GIFT FROM DOUKHOBORS
Present Ten Tons Jam to Western Convalescent Soldiers.
A gift of 20,000 pounds of jam has been received by the Military Hospitals Commission from the Doukhobors, the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood at Brilliant, B. C., for the convalescent soldier patients in the western hospitals and sanatoria.
War is against the tenets of the Doukhobor faith, and exemption from military service was promised them by the Canadian Government when they came to the west from Russia to settle.
In the Doukhobors gift are 7,500 pounds of strawberry jam, 7,500 of raspberry and 5,000 pounds of various other kinds including peach and plum. The fruit all came from the Kootenay district, and the jam was made in the Doukhobors' own model factory, which is noted for the purity of its products.

MONT BLANC EXPLOSION
M. H. C. Hospitals at Halifax Rendered First Aid.
Due to the Mont Blanc explosion certain arrangements of the Military Hospitals Commission in respect of the reception of returned soldiers arriving by transport and hospital ship from England to be altered. The Commission was, however, enabled to perform important service in caring for many of the civilian victims of the disaster.
Pier 2, where the Commission had its reception hospital and clearing depot established, was badly wrecked as to its windows and interior equipment. The structure, owing to its substantial nature, withstood the shock well. Fortunately the building had been cleared of a recent shipload of arrivals just the day before and only one man was seriously hurt.
The Camp Hill hospital, which was beyond the height of land and not within a direct line of the shock, was not seriously affected by the explosion. There were 270 military patients in Camp Hill and Pine Hill convalescent hospitals, but when the disaster occurred orders were given that these should be transferred to Sydney at once. A large proportion of them were accommodated at Moxham and Ross Hospitals in Sydney and the others were taken care of in various ways at the same city. The medical and nursing staff at the Military Hospitals Commission's institutions administered to the soldiers during their absence from the Halifax institutions.

CARED FOR INJURED
Provision was made at once for the accommodation of the civilian injured at the Camp Hill and Pine Hill hospitals. Although the Camp Hill hospital was not quite finished and was intended, when finished, to accommodate only 600 men, room was found for 1400 civilian patients, while at Pine Hill 200 civilians were taken in. The staff and equipment of the hospitals were placed freely at the disposal of the relief workers and valuable assistance was rendered. The two institutions continued to care for their civilian charges for several weeks until other arrangements could be made.
Owing to the demolition of the partitions and equipment at the clearing depot, arrangements were at once made for the delivery pf the next three hospital ships and transports at other ports. One ship arrived at New York and the staff from the discharge depot at Quebec was sent down to make the usual arrangements for their reception. Twelve hundred men, as well as women and