Item 02: Frank Valentine Weir letter diary, 2 January-31 December 1916 - Page 177

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[Page 177]

[Monday 26 June 1916]

Better Censor latter part of this.
Enemy aeroplane flew over this morning but did not lay any eggs.
From England I got the Morning Post of June 6th giving full a/c of Naval Battle
[Following paragraphs crossed out] down in the right hand bottom corner of same page is an a/c of the strike of Melbourne Bakers & refusal of others to cart flour etc:- !!!! Reads rather Small at such a time.
At last we hear that some of the Managing Staff of the big Hotel in Cairo have been arrested we always felt that they were d---- Germans. Report says that the engine of a Wireless was in the cellars, Poor old Grannie ENGLAND.

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