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Croce Rossa Britannica Prima Sezione Intendenza Terza Armata Zona di Guerra Italia Nov. 20/18 Dear Dad. I was much rejoiced to get two letters this morning, one from mother dated Oct.15th and written from Toronto and another from you and her for the twentieth. They came in just about the right time. Sometimes I get them in a little over three weeks but then there is always a longer wait until the next one. Isn't it great to have Murray home again and what good luck for him to arrive just when he did. I expect he would still be home when the armistice news came out. He deserves all the good luck that he can get now after the two years that he has been out there. It will be rather interesting for you to know that this is Austrian note paper that I am using. We got into a house during our advance, (not broke in, only billeted) and of course considered Austrian stationary fair loot. I am recuperating at Villa Trieste now and they say I may try a walk outside tomorrow. It is most exasperating to be ill at this time but the chances are that I will be around and at Trieste within a week. The Italian prisoners taken by the Austrian are being repatriated now and some of the scenes are terribly pathetic, and you in a land of plenty have no idea of some of the hardships that have to be put up with. We meet hundreds on the roads that have walked from Austria and are footsore and have been without food of any sort for days. In Trieste they are coming in in train loads, there is no food in the city and no transportation adequate either to take them away or to bring food to them. In one case that I know of they had to put a lot of several thousands under a guard or machine-guns to keep them from breaking out and looting the town.