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started two nights ago & has been almost continuous ever since, can be heard from the direction of Bapaume. – perhaps nearer – say Combles. It has been continuous but become a little fainter, which leads us to hope that the very strenuous opposition he was offering there has been overcome.
I did not expect our stay in this camp to last longer than about four days, but there is no word or rumour of moving yet. Relations between Hall & myself are of course nothing more than just friendly. Personally I would like to resume the old footing because in our tent sub. division decent discussion is out of the question & the effect on one is very deterrent from a point of view of work. They are more or less drifters. I am afraid that it would do no good to do so however. He seems to have taken the position of allowing me to dictate what
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