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 terday when I was reading the Paris Edition of the New York Herald, I got so interested in the account of our probable break with Germany that I bought a Daily Mail and a Matin besides, and spent all the time when I should have been writing, bickering with the fellows over the news. Then on Friday the new men from the liner Chicago arrived and when I was introduced to one of my cousins from Pittsburg whom I hadn't known was coming over, I didn't bother with letter-writing any more that day. Unfortunately he was seized with pneumonia yesterday on his way back from Bordeaux in a convoy of Fords. He is now in a serious condition at the American Hospital in Neuilly. His chances are said to be about even. Bliss, another Ambulance man, died last week from the same disease.

The "Ordre de Mouvement" for the Section has just come. Unless the Eiffel Tower falls on our cars during the night, we shall leave here at noon tomorrow.