Northumberland [?] Dec 7th 1914 My darling Lola,

Just a few lines to say that I got back all right + had a good journey. It was rather rough crossing the channel but I had a good lunch and we reached Bologne at 5 P.M. At 6 we started off in a motor bus and reached Merveille at 12 midnight. There we found a motor car which brought us on and landed me here at 1-30 A.M. Things here as just the same as when I left; but they have