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25th August
In the morning I did the rounds of the "red Tabs" (Staff officers) endeavoring to make arrangements for the transference of the men's rations & for sundry affairs to Steenvorde. What absurd & unnecessary formalities I had to go through & now I am further off than ever. My Contempt & disgust for army administration increases with every trifling matter I have to see headquarters about. Things that could be settled in 5 minutes take usually 10 days! And why? Because it has to pass through a score of unnecessary channels that seem to have been created to find soft jobs for "string-pullers".

Morning interviewed the red tabs and made further arrangements for transference to Steenvorde. Went again to

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