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he is already on the sea. How happy we were to find him still there! [[underlined in red]] Located him in newly built barracks [[/underlined in red]] after inquiring first at three different places before locating him. [[underlined in red]] Thousands of workman. busy building and digging everywhere. Looks like the building of a new city. Armed guards [[/underlined in red]] everywhere, new roads being built, sewerage, digging etc etc. In the midst of this some [[strikethrough]] new plain [[/strikethrough]] newly built plain one story frame buildings, others going up. Plenty of mud between [[underlined in red]] Everybody takes it cheerfully [[/underlined in red]] altho' George says food is wretched and dirty, and nobody seems to know anything [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] about anything [[underlined in red]] Last night slept all [[/underlined in red]]
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[[underlined in red]] clothed on the floor [[/underlined in red]] of the barracks because he like many others had no cot to sleep on. Asks us to buy him a [[underlined in red]] mattress and four more blankets [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] for the [[/strikethrough]] to use on the transport ship. Otherwise [[strikethrough]] loo [[/strikethrough]] looks cheerful as the others. Cannot leave the camp to go with us. I tried to obtain a pass for him allowing him to visit Yonkers while he stays here. But his lieutenant [[underlined in red]] Stockton [[/underlined in red]] calls me aside and [[underlined in red]] tells me secretly that they will leave [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] very soon, perhaps to morrow [[/underlined in red]] and therefore cannot issue passes. This suddenly stems our hopes of having [[underlined in red]] George [[/underlined in red]] with us a few days more. Saw some [[underlined in red]] airplanes [[/underlined in red]] up in the air among which some of the large [[underlined in red]] Caproni machines recently arrived here from Italy. [[strikethrough]] Wanted [[/strikethrough]] George [[/underlined in red]]