Viewing page 93 of 100

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

180
[[strikethrough]] May [[/strikethrough]] June 1, 1918 [[underlined in red]] Baron de Cartier, Minister of Belgium [[/underlined in red]] wrote me yesterday about a soldier [[underlined in red]] Troosters[[/underlined in red]] now in Belgian Armor - motor car squadron who has [[underlined in red]] invention for exploding mines. [[/underlined in red]] 
Had [[underlined in red]] tooth [[/underlined in red]] examined at hospital by Xray photograph. [[underlined in red]] Must be pulled Monday. [[/underlined in red]]
June 2 (Sunday) [[underlined in red]] Troosters and
Rogez [[/underlined in red]] both Belgian soldiers privates - here, to visit me to submit invention
[[a vertical red line in left margin highlights the following entry]]
[[underlined in red]] of Troosters this Belgian [[strikethrough]] conling [[/strikethrough]] handful [[/underlined in red]] of soldiers [[underlined in red]] is the remnant of armor motor car squad sent to Galicia in 1915 [[/underlined in red]] 
After the revolution and the [[underlined in red]] Bolsheviki [[/underlined in red]] they managed to get away [[underlined in red]] over Siberia [[/underlined in red]] 
Took them [[underlined in red]] 47 days [[/underlined in red]] by train. Trains crowded to suffocation. no order
[[/vertical red line in left margin]]
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
181
[[underlined in red]] no discipline. Bolsheviki [[/underlined in red]] disturbing everything. Finally arrived at [[underlined in red]] Harbin, [[/underlined in red]] thence to [[underlined in red]] Vladivostock, [[/underlined in red]] thence by steamer to [[underlined in red]] San Francisco etc. [[/underlined in red]] and now on [[underlined in red]] their way back to the front. Made them stay for dinner. [[/underlined in red]] 
Told their experiences. Are [[underlined in red]] heartily tired of the war. [[/underlined in red]] What they like least of all now are [[underlined in red]] speeches or parades. [[/underlined in red]] Say they will stick to it to the end as a matter of duty but [[underlined in red]] all glamor and such things with them count no longer. [[/underlined in red]] Took them for supper at [[underlined in red]] University Club, [[/underlined in red]] after long motor car drive. They seem much inspired by what they saw here since they are in America 
Seems [[underlined in red]] like a new and better world for them. All these [[/underlined in red]] Belgians I met thus far [[underlined in red]] expressed their desire after the [[/underlined in red]]