Overview
Wed. Oct. 14.
Mustered "Kelson" hoggarts [sic] + cull hoggarts + dagged + dipped both lots, heating the water to prevent ill effects. Beautiful hot day. Aunt Ralph left for Wgton [Wellington]. A general advance by the Alies [sic] against the German right wing in France is reported. The Battle of the Aisne is over + the battle line is now from the sea, northward of Lille, through Compiegne to Verdun. Russian cruiser sunk by German submarine in Baltic Sea. Daring air raid on Cologne by Brit[ish] airmen. Dutch fortify Flushing. Terrible blasphemous speech by Kaiser. Some of the Antwerp forts are still resisting the Germans.