Tue. Aug. 25]
details of the Mous??? Eng agement??? are available to-day. Our Army seems to have withstood about 90,000 Germans but our casualties were 2,000. We held our ground stubbornly & the retreat was carried out without the loss of a gem! Germany has still a hard nut left to crack. The Russians are getting a move as now & have badly damaged 3 of Germany's Army Corps, while little Servia is upsetting Austria rather badly. so if we can only manage to delay them even they stand to be badly beaten because they will have to detach men to look after Russia.
Wed. Aug. 26 Pp About 8.30 this morning I heard a disturbance downstairs "Len!" "hullo!" "Len!" "hullo oh!" "You've got it"
[Wed. Aug. 26
"What!" By that time the Pater had arrived in my room with "The Times" which had the following announcement!- ???NEWSPAPER ARTICLE??? It is a bit of a startler to get that sort of thing without warning of any kind! As I had heard nothing at all from anyone I went to the HQ at Pound hame???. There I found a kindly Major, who likewise had heard nothing, and I fancy