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<p>[Page 99]</p><p>we have to be very careful with our expenses and tighten our belts, all the more so as we don't know if we'll ever see the £400 from the government.</p><p>12th/6/18.<br />The battles at the western front have been raging unabated lately, and it is definitely our last and biggest, and hopefully successful, attempt to force peace before arrival of the massive American troop reinforcements. Unfortunately, we seem to have underestimated America, because nobody guessed to what great lengths this country would go. Despite all the successes of our U-boats, the Americans, with the help of the English fleet, manage time and again to move their troops across to Europe without much bother, which Germany certainly didn't expect. But the efforts of our own brave soldiers are downright amazing and admirable. To the north, we are standing right near Amiens, and to the south, we are near Chateau Tierry [Thierry] along the Somme on the old battlefield of 1914, but as close as we got on several occasions,</p>