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Nov 10 – 11

station & to cut one of the three cables, a second cable is intact & possibly a third, all the instruments except one were destroyed, this had been buried & is now in use again. The wireless telegraph & cable operators deserve much praise for sticking to their posts & sending out messages & for saving instruments. The Sydney will sail for Colombo as soon as she succeeded in getting the German wounded & prisoners on board; The operation may take 24 hours as it presents considerable difficulty.

Wed 11th
Slept out last night, a lovely thunderstorm came along at 1 AM. & hunted us all down below deck again. on duty from 4 till 8 AM. the morning clear & sea very calm. practising Morse signalling
got my teeth from the dentist. [indecipherable] horse died a man died [indecipherable] Suffolk Port Lincoln

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