giving Fritz a good, and for him expensive hammering up north, he's about fed up with things, if Russia pulls herself together a bit I really think the end of the war must be just about in sight. We are, for a change, in an extraordinarily quiet part of the line, a portion which we have never before been in, the trenches are not at all bad in spite of the water and we have some fairly decent dugouts. For the time being, I have command of a company but don't know if the job is permanent or not as we have a