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more at present. Nights are
frosty + men are suffering.
Oct 1 Left at 10 via Farnham to
Aldershot where 150000 recruits
are in camp in neighborhood
being broken in. Saw many going
through their exercises, many
in their old red coats of former
days. Then drove to Frith
Hill North of Aldershot where
2500 German civilians + some
number soldiers are confined
in comfortable tents.
Both compounds enclosed by
high wire fence + outside of
that wire entanglements
charged with electricity
We drove the car within
50 feet of line + talked with
the English National Reserve
guarding them. They say the
soliders are a pretty decent
lot but have no use for the
spys [sic] as they call them (waiters,
clerks, etc.) The Germans
have money to buy tobacco