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2 P.M.  but lost endless time in getting along pier then more time lost in examination before imigration commissioner, quarantine then finally custom examination.  [[red underline]] Hand baggage was handled in the most savage way, [[/red underline]] piling it one upon another first on ship then on pier regular baggage smashing Got several letters from [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] on board giving me general news.  [[red underline]] Hugo DuBois has died [[/red underline]] shortly after he wrote me his kind letter which reached me in Japan.  Dear fine chap. - Another gone.  Celine tells [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] with his so called [[red underline]] Redmanol [[/red underline]] is trying to make inroads in bakelite.  [[red underline]] Orders fair but not so big as last [[/red underline]]
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month. Then news from Ghent and Belgium.  [[red underline]] [[Frederic?]] Swarts [[/red underline]] her brother is [[red underline]] head of Red-Cross service in Ghent. My sister is Red Cross nurse [[/red underline]] and Celine's Sister is also in [[red underline]] Red Cross service Great misery [[/red underline]] and want of [[red underline]] money all over Belgium. [[/red underline]]
American Express Check of $100 sent by Celine [[strikethrough]] could [[/strikethrough]] to Rachel could not be cashed except in Antwerp and then only with enormous loss.  360 francs instead of 510 frcs!  Went to Palace Hotel sent telegram to [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]].  War news still very indecisive.  Germans and Allies are facing each other and fighting each day without making much progress one way or another.  The [[red underline]] Germans in America [[/red underline]] headed by [[red underline]] german ambassador [[/red underline]] and such men as [[red underline]] Herman Ridder [[/red underline]] of New York [[red underline]] Staats Zeitung, [[/red underline]] and Professor [[red underline]] Münsterberg [[/red underline]] are doing