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[Page 158]

Those at work in the fields are mostly women and war-prisoners; the latter chiefly in broad yellow-striped clothing in all stages of raggedness, though here and there one sees a tattered French-blue or khaki uniform.

Heidelberg is prettily situated among the hills, but the portion of the town I saw was not inviting. It was merely a modern railway depot of some importance; - "Alte Heibelberg" of fiction is certainly not on view from the train.

The train filled with troops here, & I spent the two hours to Karlsruhe in the darkened train (we are in the air-raid zone) in altering the opinions of some poor devils who think the war will be over in three months with the Huns in Paris and London!

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