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The landlady & the general.  He is furious.  The town he says has requisitioned rooms for him.  He ends by absolute fury in obtaining a double room for heaven knows how many.  We all have a conversation after this.  They talk of the dead condition of Paris the impossibility of getting warm clothes (The two suspicious characters evidently bring in commerce) A scene on the stage could not be more picturesque.  I have B's brassard on my arm, which explains everything.  A lull occurs.  Now in comes two groups.  Very black couple - man & woman, heavy mourning evidently have lost a son - perhaps two - and a couple of pale English officers in khaki.  One looks as if he were on the verge of some fatal illness.  They have a lot of jokes and are evidently going to have a time.

[[underlined]] Dec. 3d [[/underlined]] To go back to the trip to Amiens.  Many convoys we passed two and almost every town the square was lined ^[[up]] with huge motor trucks or sometimes rows & rows of farm wagons, Red Cross cars, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] or big motor busses.  We passed the chateau where the Harjis have their Hospital just to the Paris side of Montdidier