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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 1915 [[symbol - cross atop circle]] October 21. Nice Indian Summer day. Very busy all morning dictating belated mail. Most of afternoon too. Visit of Radcliffe Manager of [[red underline]] Electric Light Co in regard to poles. [[/red underline]] Explained situation to him and showed him how he could arrange suitable connection. Spent considerable [[left margin]][[symbol - cross atop circle]] 1h [[/left margin]] time on letter of Paulus etc. in relation to Royal Baking Powder Plant. Charge one hour. [[left margin]]Oct 22. [[/left margin]] News from Europe published in morning's papers gives the [[red underline]] shocking details [[/red underline]] of the brutal execution [[red underline]] of Miss Cavell in Brussels by the military authorities. [[/red underline]] Have the prussian militarists not a grain of shame or common sense left? After Dinant, Louvain Malines, the Lusitania and now finally this ^[[insertion]] new [[/insertion]] outrage against humanity! Evening I went to Chemists Club
Transcription Notes:
Reference is to execution of British nurse, Edith Cavell on 10-12-1915 by Germans in occupied Belgium. Dinant, Louvain and Malines are cities in Belgium overtaken by the Germans in WWI.