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crash, a gun goes off in the next square.
They put up a barrage now & the sky is full of bursting shells making a grand sight. Then you hear planes chiefly ours & then you can pick out a hun by the different noise it makes. I heard no bombs. One dropped in green park [Green Park] near the Reitz [Ritz ?] making a big hole. Another outside Charing Cross hospital breaking all the windows.
Plenty of shrapnel & dud shells falling about, policemen with large plackards "Take Cover", motor cars with illuminated signs & all sorts of noises. I went for a trip in the tube after the show. 9 stations had to be closed down owing to the collection of people refusing to go home, about 1% of English people the remainder being feros. & dagoes, etc. Thousands of kids they bring all their bed clothes & tucker with them & the smell pip-pip. Someone worked out it would cost about £1100 for disinfectant to get the smell of them away. Hundreds of young fellows who should be fighting & all half scared to death.