In the Times of yest. There is a summary of Sir John French’s despatch & a leading article explaining it, showing how the allies have come on steadily ever since Sep 6th, & very slowly but surely driven back the Germans. They will not be able to recover themselves again, for we have broken the power of Prussian militarism.

Also there was an article about the Canadian contingent, which said that never since the time of the Norman conquest has such an enormous force of armed men landed on these shores.

But still, we are not told how many men & guns have come. Germany cannot produce a force like that.

It has been a lovely day. The Du Boulays came over in the afternoon.

In the evening we had a special practice of Merbecke conducted by Mr Roylands Smith. A large number of people came to it. There had been playing Evensong, just before.

Mr R. Smith had seen in the evening paper that Ostend had been taken by our army. We do not know if it is true, yet.