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obliterated by huge mine craters to prevent our use of the roads but otherwise the roads were good. The sight of fields lately under cultivation & splendid avenues of trees was a sight worth walking miles to see after our months of experiences of nothing but mud & splintered woods. Was fortunate enough to see a German machine which had just been brought down with a Hun prince in charge, it was one of the latest type, an Albatross-werke. Altogether I did about 16 miles in country just vacated by the enemy & can see plainly that apart from his front line he had a much better time than we did we being forced to live in country destroyed by the fighting while he has fallen back onto pleasant fields & pastures new. So far as I could see he left absolutely nothing of military value behind.