Victory for the Allies at last: on Saturday we drove back the Germans. They retired in some confusion. The Belgians have retaken Maline.

Evelyn saw in a paper sent him from Long Eaton that a son of one of his parishioners was in hospital in Plymouth, so off he dashed to see him. Dorothea also went to Plymouth to see the dentist & Mary to Tavistock in the morning to help the quartermaster make jam. Evelyn saw a man who belonged to the same regiment as his old school fellow Schonberg & he told him how his party was nearly cut off by Germans & only just escaped.

Evelyn took the soldiers a bag of nuts.

The papers to day utterly deny the story about the Russians having passed through England. It is a false report without any foundation.