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surrendered

were surrounded had the impudence to hold up their arms - they received no mercy.

I lost a lot of good friends who left Sydney with me on the "Ascanius" and strangely enough they were quiet well behaved, sober men & calculated to make far better citizens than many of those who survived.

In the last advance up a slope we were shelled very steadily - in fact it was touch & go all the time.   A few dozen of us got into the front line trenches that had been captured that morning.   I found myself in a small trench on my lonesome.   There was

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