Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 191
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she is a mass of ruined houses & shell torn streets, scores of the houses are loopholed & barricaded while not a few of them are mined, in spite of all the shelling & fighting the place has seen there are plenty of people still in it, I suppose they don't like leaving their old homes, & would rather run the risk than leave them, what wonderful people the French are, one has to be in France for a while before he can fully appreciate them, I quite believe what a certain clever man said about her, that it was better 10 Germany's should utterly perish than one France, for undoubtedly they lead the world in science in many respects, & what would the world be without a France she is fighting a wonderful fight in this great war, & at last I think she