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enough to see weather [whether] they
were French or German.

Oct. 17 '17. Wednesday.

On the dish-washing squad.
Worked a little on the car.
In the afternoon Mickie and
I went up on the hill and
read. Up there we saw
another sausage brought
down by a German plane.
The offensive started early
this morning. A terrible
roar of guns. We heard
some official figures on the
offensive. In Verdun offensive
they had fifty guns to the
kilom. In the Somme one
hundred and twenty guns
to the kilometer. This offensive
two hundred guns to the
kilometer. They expect to fire