The wounded came on in Ursula Dearmer's military car.
Twenty-three wounded in all were taken from Lokeren or near it to-day. Hundreds had to be left behind in the German lines.
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We have heard that Antwerp is burning; that the Government is removed to Ostend; that all the English have left.
There are a great many British wounded, with nurses and Army doctors, in Ghent. Three or four British have been brought into the "Flandria."
One of them is a young British officer, Mr. ——. He is said to be mortally wounded.
Dr. Haynes and Dr. Bird have not gone. They and Dr. —— have joined the surgical staff of the Hospital, and are working in the operating theatre all day. They have got enough to do now in all conscience.
All night there has been a sound of the firing of machine guns [?]. At first it was like the barking, of all the dogs in Belgium. I thought it was the dogs of Belgium, till I discovered a deadly rhythm and precision in the barking.[21]
[Friday, 9th.]
The Hospital is so full that beds have been put in the entrance hall, along the walls by the big ward and the secretarial bureau. In the recess by the ward there are three British soldiers.