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I have many messages to send  to Mr Andrews & must also write & thank him.

In the afternoon we wandered round the Clyde to see the shipbuilding yards.The banks are simply lined with ships in the process of being built. Commerce boats - destroyers - submarines galore. We met a Scotchman who showed us round & had a long yarn to him about England  & Australia. Arriving back we sought acomodation & struck a "nancy" of a place - the flashest hotel we have yet been in - the place was luxurient, beautiful carpeted staircases - supper room smoking & coffee room - drawing room - everything. A place where Australian privates only dared to mix with the naval & military officers by whom the place was being frequented.

It was wonderful to realise just what Foster Fraser wrote in his "Life's Contrasts" about Glasgow on a Saturday night. Glasgow is a great big commerial dirty city having a population of about 1 ¼ million & of a Saturday night it seems that the whole population flocks into the city town. The streets are simply a moving mass of rowdy women & men bustling & swearing & fighting - wandering about

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