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style kimono. Rows of photographs, then the Gallery behind. Other house no girls displayed only photos.   Saw no one enter. but saw many efforts of ticket seller of inducing gaping men, who simply seemed to make fun of them. They urged them just as if they were selling wares. Girls got as much as 500 ¥ which they can send to their parents and for which they have to serve several years. The whole thing a rather [[red underline]] awkward and sad exhibition [[/red underline]]. Saw no really pretty faces.  Non as pretty as the daughter of Sakuray or wife of Ishwani's son. See [[red underline]] Yoshiwara's [[/red underline]] description in Terry's Japanese Empire) Home at about 9:45 P.M then to bed.  
Aug 18. Up at 6 A.M. Went to [[red underline]] dentist [[/red underline]]
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at 9. bought some socks etc then [[strikethrough]] home [[/strikethrough]] Tiffin. Afternoon about 2 P.M came Furuta brought me letters and newspapers from [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] dated July 31. [[red underline]] Celine announces war rumors [[/red underline]] pities Albert whose family is in the zone of action. [[red underline]] Little did she imagine that a few [[strikethrough]] years [[/strikethrough]] days later Belgium would be in same plight. [[/red underline]] On July 31 the [[red underline]] German liners [[/red underline]] in New York [[red underline]] cancelled their sailings so at that date [[strikethrough]] 5 days [[/strikethrough]] 4 days or 5 days prior to formal declaration of war, they were already warned.  This seems to indicate to me that at that date Austria and Germany had already secretly planned to strike, and undoubtedly had not notified Italy. [[/red underline]] Perhaps they did not expect that Italy was going to withdraw from the Triple Alliance, or perhaps they [[strikeout]] ex [[strikeout]] ^[[sus]]pected this attitude of Italy and therefore left her out of the secret.     

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