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- quite different to our very large billets at Sains. There is Electric Light everywhere, quite free apparently, as no house has a meter. The men have it in their billets. I rode on horse ambulance today on account of my sore face. I have a comfortable clean room with clean sheets - the third time in my three nights in Belgium. The people are very courteous & desirous of doing all they can for us. Madame here has 2 children of her own and two nieces from Flanders who are living with her to learn French. She is a Walloon Flamand but dislikes the Walloons Flamands of Flanders - from Ghent, Bruges, Ypres - and said the people here were afraid of the Walloons Flamands working in the district. The only union between the two races in Belgium is the one of Religion