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123 The "Platanes" 31 Days. MAY, 1918. MAY 2 & 3. 3 FRIDAY [123-242] Last Quarter, 10.26 p.m. A new horror in the way of drugs is sprung on me Peraldehyde (?)- Frothy and noxious looking, and of a taste lasting for 8 hours. Col. Mott boards me in his usual perfunctory and kindly way - much good to have an MO. who never sees one. Two weeks "under observation" - i.e absolute neglect of treatment - except for what the nurses think best. [article] May. 1.- Announced 5,241 German prisoners taken on the Western front in April, compared with 1,661 in March. Americans on the Amiens front near Montdidier. Australians capture Es Salt, halfway between the Jordan and the Hedjaz railway; 350 prisoners; Turks surprise a British mounted brigade near the ford at Jisr-ed-Damieh and compel them to fall back; nine guns abandoned by the British. Germany establishes a military dictatorship in Ukraine; Field-Marshal Eichhorn orders peasantry to sow the land, arrests members of the Rada who resent his decree, and establishes military government in Kieff; Sebastopol occupied by the Germans. May 2. - French attack between Hailles and Castel, and seize Hill 82 and a wood skirting the Avre; over 100 prisoners. Heavy bombs dropped on Zeebrugge lock gates. Germans enter Donetz region west of the Don. Turkish attempt on Allenby's positions at Es Salt; they cross the Jordan at Jisr-ed-Damieh, but are repulsed with loss of 314 prisoners.