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Observer

Monday, August 17

Despite no official notices of our troops fighting, heard of more wives of soldiers who have been told by the War Office that their husbands are killed. Three women in one road in London have lost their husbands and so the news spreads...

Later: It is now officially announced that the British Expeditionary Force has been landed without any casualties in France.

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