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[[strikethrough]] Sunday - November 15th 1914. Paris. [[/strikethrough]]
We luckily did not start ^[[for Paris]] [[strikethrough]] as we had expected to [[/strikethrough]] that [[strikethrough]] very same [[/strikethrough]] night [[strikethrough]] of the 10th for Paris [[/strikethrough]]. ^[[as we had expected to do]]  The [[strikethrough]] regular [[/strikethrough]] night boat had been taken off, we would have arrived "the day after the day after tomorrow".

Mr Bacon came [[strikethrough]] up [[/strikethrough]] to tell me this and also to give me a piece of news [[strikethrough]] that was pretty terrific [[/strikethrough]].  It seem[[strikethrough]]ed[[/strikethrough]] ^[[s]] the Olympic on her last trip [[strikethrough]] some seven ^[[two weeks]] or eight days ago now I surmise [[/strikethrough]], received messages of distress while off the Irish coast.  She put on full speed and dashed to the assistance of what turned out to be the Invincible, one of Englands largest and [[strikethrough]] most dangerous [[/strikethrough]] ^[[newest]] battleships. The Invincible was sinking. The Olympic took off as many as possible. All this has been kept dark.  ^[[although it must have happened at least 2 weeks ago]] The passengers on the Olympic were not asked to keep quiet but they were shown the [[underlined]] law [[/underlined]]!