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1st June. Exceptional cases. I [indecipherable] eff v little bone dog flesh. Occasionally little white bread. 90% deaths [indecipherable] [indecipherable] Russians. 2nd usual ordeal. 3rd. Hun shortage – orderly ate bread of prisoners. Scotchman interpreting. 4th. Hun Generals inspection, much excitement. 5th. Large party for Hunland usual [indecipherable] amongst orderlies. Wilks – demanded to walk & illtreated. Hun attempted to strike girl with bayonet. I with others entrained in evening for Germany. 6th travelling in train. food improved. breakfast coffee 2 thin slices smeared with cheese. dinner bowl rice. tea – similar to breakfast. stopped Hanover & Berlin crowds people. crops good all soil under cultivation. crossed River Spree. Hundreds [indecipherable] factories near Berlin. 10pm 7th Arrived Stettin. Much excitement. 1am by tram to hospital. [indecipherable] Johannisthal. food riot. At J's used [indecipherable] many civilians injured & killed. much debris in streets. Compelled to walk into hospital ward – 130 various nationalities. Milty monopolize all supplies. Russian 1914. Hun student operating theatre. Ravenously hungry. cards issued. Dobertz lager men returned for one Russian. 11th. Wound still septic. bandages for 6 weeks. 12th French Sgt voluntary – particulars for London. 13-20 – I only Englishmen in bed this ward. abominable sanitary – venereal cases. Russian orderlies. Thefts etc. no smokes for 10 days. Men collect leaves & fragments roll in bandage. Last day. before Hun specialist. 21-28th. I was X rayed 2 hrs in theatre. Ill treatment by Hun in X ray room. each morning at 8am in operating room. Hun nurses laughter. Women worse than the men. 29-30th. Transferred No. 7 hut informed of operation. weather glorious. Beer house in [indecipherable] time. lack of literature, beer issued on Sunday & men from reprisal in Russia receive empty packets. apparently stolen en route. 15th July. Hair not brushed since capture. 3 stone decrease. 2nd Received 2 cards from Copenhagen. 3rd. taken bath room. Hun, Russian Frenchman & Englishman. operation. 4-6th. V. ill. 7-10th. 7th dressed first time since operation. tube thru leg. 11th. two parcels. 12th. dressed. rough handling. 13-31st. food demolished. Instruments badly sterilized often used 6 cases. Johnson. many self imposed duties & kind acts.
1st August Strand Mag 1894. Russians escaped. Crippled posterns. 2nd-28th. Usual Hell. Men arrived in June received parcels.
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