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reach of old Fritz should he ever come any further. The station at Amiens is simply crowded with traffic, troops munitions, guns, stores, horses & etc coming in & being unloaded as fast as possible, while the outgoing trains are carrying everything of any value out of the city, & they are very wise in this respect nothing like being on the safe side, when we got off the train we marched down to a little park & here all hands had a cup of cocoa previous to moving off to our billet, we then saddled up & set off off
our way from St Roch led through the centre of the city itself, & the one time busy town was as quiet as could be only a handful of people remaining but what were left showed their appreciation of the Aussies in no unmistakable form, I only saw