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Walter Fox letters to his wife, November 1918-February 1919
1918-12-08 Page 4
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If never living illegible it was about 330 when we entered illegible I thought then that it was the limit of distraction but I saw worse later the town was about 15–20,000 before we were but I saw only a day civilians and me illegible gave one the impression of such lonesome Ness that it was depressive the building had only a few walls left in the business part of the town and only one place where we could buy anything to eat no hotels or restaurants open as the civilian said none were no beds or cooking utensils left after the armies passed through it gave one a feeling of sadness to visit the cathedral which illegible to the 14th century the roof smashed in and the illegible knocked down and the marble columns demolished the altar was the only part which can perhaps be saved after in began to get dark at about 430
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If never living illegible it was about 330 when we entered illegible I thought then that it was the limit of distraction but I saw worse later the town was about 15–20,000 before we were but I saw only a day civilians and me illegible gave one the impression of such lonesome Ness that it was depressive the building had only a few walls left in the business part of the town and only one place where we could buy anything to eat no hotels or restaurants open as the civilian said none were no beds or cooking utensils left after the armies passed through it gave one a feeling of sadness to visit the cathedral which illegible to the 14th century the roof smashed in and the illegible knocked down and the marble columns demolished the altar was the only part which can perhaps be saved after in began to get dark at about 430
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