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be successful. I am hopeful.
1st. October. The weather is inclement and miserable, inspite of this, I spent several hours in the garden, talking with the officers. There are seven British officers imprisoned here to receive Surgical attention. Their mode of living is similar to ours, but they are allowed a small amount of money weekly. From this meagre pittance the Huns deduct the cost of their rations. They are unable to procure anything in addition to the Hun food. Capt. Lubinsky, voluntarily purchases articles for those who have a little spare money.
2nd. 8 a.m. I was carried across to the bathroom and placed with four Englishmen awaiting operations. My turn eventually came, much to my relief, 11 a.m. Quite recovered from the ether. Soon afterwards a man handed me several food parcels, which had arrived a few hours earlier. To my joy, I discovered a tablet of chocolate, which I consumed forthwith. 4. p.m. Although suffering much pain, and quite unfit for removal (Brass Buttons) a Hun under officer ordered all hands to return to the hall, my original ward. I suffered awful agony during removal.
3rd. -10th. I am awfully weak and have suffered much pain during the week. I was informed by an Australian who watched my operation, that a large piece of bone was removed from the tibial head. When being dressed, the Hun Surgeon lifts the flesh over my knee-cap thus exposing the bone, which he probes and scrapes cruelly. It is essential that the cavity be thoroughly cleansed, so I am prepared to stick the pain. On the 9th, the Hun Surgeon, informed me through the Russian Surgeon, that my leg would be amputated unless it improved within two days, this unexpected news depressed me very much. "Brass Buttons" who delights in worrying the Englishmen, created much excitement to-day, during the distribution of parcels. This specimen of Hun brutishness, curses madly and when everything is arranged according to his orders he invents trouble. Most of us display the contents of parcels in a conspicuous place, merely to tantalize the Huns; this is our only means of revenge. Huns are persistently worrying us to sell them food which is unprocurable in Stettin. The few household articles obtainable are abnormally expensive. Needless to say the Huns never receive an atom from