Item 01: Frank Hurley war diary, 21 August-28 October 1917 - Page 65
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as the enemy is already aware of most if not all the negatives held up. I shuddered when I saw the careless manner in which negatives are handled & shuffled like packs of card - to think that mine must go through the same procedure! However I found the Censor sympathetic, & I have no doubt that they can be taught how to handle them. Bean and I then motored on to Montreuil - to the General Headquarters. I have never seen any country so heavenly, & well tended as Northern France. The undulating lands are like great wavy carpets of agriculture & the roads through them leafy avenues of gold. For it is autumn and the Elms & Poplars are taking on their Autumn tints, the Hay is being stacked in big conical ricks, mostly by women and old men: for every eligible man is fighting for La Belle France or has died for his country. And it