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2. I have blue pencilled so many thousand love letters that I can't very well kick over the traces myself.Anyhow the papers are certain to let you know where we are very soon, most probably long before you get this.I wrote you at the End of the first stage of the journey, just as we left Australia's shores. Also I wrote at the end of the second stage when we stopped for a few days at -----? These you should have received long ago. Again when I first set foot on shore of Asia (I think that is harmless) I wired home saying "Excellent Health Oliver Hogue". That also I hope you got. The Cable folk had received orders that Christian names were not to be sent alone. So I could have signed it 'Hogue' but as you might have thought it was Jack or some other wandering boy from the Hogue Clan, I added the Oliver for luck.Now we are in the third & final stage of our long long journey to the Antipodes. We expect to land in a few days & put in a bit of training before the real fun begins. We are hoping to get a slap at the Unspeakable Turk first of all to get our hand in & then run along & give Kaiser Bill his quietus with a bare bodkin or bayonet.
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