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Making military maps – studies at a café.
Mar; 18
Flag wagging – studies – Café Chantant, rather diverting but decidedly crude plenty of singing of patriotic songs by a woman in tights with a piping voice, who perhaps for a few more piastres would sing the "Watch on the Rhine" with as much vigour as she did "Tipperary" and "Rule Britannia."
Mar; 19
A strange and wonderful thing has happened – I go to have my teeth seen to and the dentist says it does not matter when I pay him! I explained to him that I might be leaving for the Front to-morrow; "Never mind, send me the money from Berlin." This is a Dr. Garavedien - he is most charming and most hospitable.
Mar; 22
Visit Cairo – studies at Café Saulte.
Mar; 23
Flag drill – studies – visit Cairo.
Mar; 24
Drill. Visit Mr and Mrs Babbira; it was very pleasant to sit on their verandah and look over across the desert over which I had so many times marched in the heat and grime of the