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that, with the French, we have xxxxx retaken some 300 towns and villages and when one stops and thinks that each one of these has been completely laid flat, one realises better just what France is suffering.
The country we are now in is by far the best piece of Northern France we have seen. Lovely green fields unspoiled by shell holes abound on all sides whilst a lot of the ground bears evidence of having been recently cropped - for the benefit of the Boche no doubt. We brought all our transport animals up and turned them loose onto the grass - a diet which they had not tasted since coming to France, or from Australia for that matter as in Egypt they were always hand fed. Old limber horses which for months had toiled about in the mud with heads down and genuinely "fed up" expressions, got a second lease of life in a day and went galloping round the paddocks, kicking their heels in the air with delifht. Good luck to them, they have worked wonderfully all the winter.