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am man, and we all knew him well. I suppose it won’t be long now till we hear of casualties among many of our old American friends.”Convoy of Wounded Expected.Miss Stahl continued her letter on April 3 at 10 o’clock at night.. Everything was quiet then, Bhe said, “but ever so many have signed up to go out, and we shall very likely get a big convoy of wounded before morning, so I shall have plenty to do to . keep me awake.“The most fun we have these nights is waking up the boys and saying, ‘Come on, and get ready for Blighty.’ jThe poor fellows almost forget they, are wounded when they receive the : happy news.” 'Sends Patients To “Blighty.”At 2 o’clock the same night, Miss Stall continued as follows:“Well, I have just got about 20 patients ready for Blighty, and have got the beds they had ready for new ones, as we are told a convoy of about • 200 will be here in a few hours.“Although we think we are working hard now, the fact is we haven’t begun yet to work as hard as we did two years ago.“I told you some time ago that we -might moye this spring, but now we hardly think so, as the British are short of doctors and nurses, and have asked to keep all of us where we are.So it looks as if we should stay hero for another year at least.Hun Drive Is Stopped. V“Of course you have heard all about the big Hun drive. It has surely been a great one. But our men say the Hun has now gone about as far as he can get, and that his losses have been ten times as heavy as ours.” / r Here a line or two of Miss Stahl’s letter has been, deleted, perhapB by the censor. She then continues: “He” (the Hun) is in a city opposite our front that I told you of visiting on my last .day off duty a few weeks, ago. I-'' don’t think he will ever get as far as-the location of Our hosnital. To ha'
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Kossuth County Advance
Algona, Iowa, US
Wed, May 08, 1918
Page 6
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