Lovely day. Father had a letter from Frank dated Sep. 6th. They have up to that date received no letters from us since the beginning of the war.

War news bad. The Germans have now occupied Bruges. In the Times of yest. is an account written by an American of the entry of the Germans into Antwerp. In it he describes the huge army & its numberless soldiers & guns.

The dreadful part about it is that now that vast army of troops is free to attack the Allies front, & get to Calais.

Went into Tavistock for drill. Afterwards in the town saw a telegram saying that another of our cruisers had been sunk by a submarine: “Hawke” with great loss of life.

Dorothea, who had been to Plymouth, came back in the same train as a number of nurses in a strange uniform. Also some troops