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plights trying to get along the railways, particularly back to England. Paper work is useless & the majority of the trains are cut off. None of them are allowed to cross the frontier, & tourists besides travelling fifteen in a carriage intended for six have to get out at the frontiers & take their own luggage across. Nancy [Scarett?] does not know what will become of her German cousins who tried to return to Berlin on Friday. It is rumoured that there is fear in Paris that a fleet of German Zeppelins are going to destroy Paris from above in the night. Truly it is a situation never equaled & scarcely imagined within the memory of living men.
Tuesday August 4th
Late as it is & almost to excited to write as I am, I must make some effort to chronicle the stupendous events of this remarkable day. The situation is absolutely unparalleled in the history of the world. Never before has the war strength of each individual nation been of such