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[[underlined]] January 31st [[strikethrough]] 1914 [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]]. ^[[1915]]

Our wounded have come. [[strikethrough]] at last. [[/strikethrough]] Last night at exactly nine o'clock [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] three ambulances and Dr Martins car with himself, Dr Vogel and Dr James arrived at [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Juilly, and a few minutes later six "blessés" were lying on stretchers on the floor of the receiving rooms.  They came from a little hospital at Buzancy which is a few Kilometers south of Soissons.  So they were transported about 60K. over a pretty bad road.  Two front tires punctured, and the trip was made in 5½ hours.  One case suffered so much that the trip was made very slowly.  Two have bullets in their chests, two are leg cases, one has appendicitis and the other 
   
Mr B. & I arrived at Juilly at 12.30, had lunch amid a good deal of laughter and excitement, visited all the hospital again and waited around nervously all afternoon for the "blessés".  The hot water bottles

Transcription Notes:
blessés = injured