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_ 97 . _ _ August 7 _ : BBC announced this morning the Grass is in Bordeaux and under the Defense of the Realm Act every man and woman is automatically in service and will be solely responsible for a hundred square feet of the island 's surface , their stations to be assigned by the chief county constable . Tried to get Sir H C -- no phone service . Wrote on my history till noon . What a lot of bluster professional authors make over the writing of a book -- they should have had the necessity every businessman knows for sticking eternally to it , and experience in a newspaper cityroom -- as I had . Just before luncheon an overworked looking police constable bicycled over with designations of the areas each of us is responsible for . Sir H very thoughtfully allotted the patrolling of my library to me .