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74 At dinner excellent wine. Aug 29 [[red underline]] Noyon has been retaken and Allies are advancing further. [[/red underline]] We went walking thru town following Sherbrooke then higher up near [[red underlined]] Mount Royal [[/red underline]] then thru [[red underline]] McGill University grounds. Most buildings now used for hospitals for wounded of the war [[/red underline]]. At some street crossings at noon saw number of soldiers demanding [[red underline]] registration papers from men within military age. [[/red underline]] This is due to fact that [[red underline]] French Canadians have shown very little enthusiasm for service and many [[/red underline]] have [[black underline]] resisted [[/black underline]] obligatory [[strikethrough]] [[dro?]] [[/strikethrough]] military service [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] [[two red exclamation points in left margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 75 [[red underline]] contrary to general spirit of [[strikethrough]] englis [[/strikethrough]] British Canadians [[/red underline]] Went to visit vegetable market of Bon-Secours. Everything reminds us very much the ways of old Europe and more particularly of France. Drove back to garage in an old [[strikethrough]] horse [[/strikethrough]] open horse-carriage. There took my motor car and went driving right and left thru newer quarters of town some of them very prettily laid out along lovely slopes of [[red underline]] Mount Royal [[/red underline]]. Houses of excellent lovely architecture and small but very pretty gardens around. Buildings all substantial of brick or stone; [[red underline]] makes an excellent impression. [[/red underline]] Evening after supper again enjoyed excellent