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<p>[Page 74]</p><p>begun to shell Paris. The offensive marks the deployment of the "Big Bertha", as the English call the canon, after Bertha Krupp, but she doesn't seem to do a lot of damage. Rather, she seems to be an expensive toy. To judge from this offensive, the Smuts mission in Switzerland must have failed and once again hopes for peace have been dashed.</p><p>2nd/4/18.<br />Because the departures to America of the Colombo padres, and of Pastor Dicks from New Guinea, have left the camp without a Catholic priest, the Catholics have been able to arrange for a Catholic priest from Kempsey, Pastor Fitzpatrick, an Irishman, to come to Trial Bay every Wednesday to say Mass. I have rarely seen such a handsome man. After Mass he often hangs around for a while, reports about war rumours, etc and always has something interesting and new to relate. Most of all, he told a comrade, we should not believe a fraction of what the newspapers report. In reality, many things were very different and above all,</p>