PHP 5.3 SoapClient Stripping HTML special characters

Hi all, I am using the SOAP client to retrieve data from a web server. One field in the returned object is a text string that may contain embedded carriage returns. If I look at the raw packets they appear as '
' in the string. When I get the string in the SoapClient the carriage return has been stripped. So far I have been unable to find a setting that will leave this embedded character in place. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, James