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<p>[Page 108]</p><p>can stretch one's legs. There are a few shady trees and many shrubs and bushes, which makes for a nice change. The area is open from 8 am to 5 pm.</p><p>Upon special request, the Commander has allowed transfers into the main camp, and apart from our friend Wehrs and the singer Plücker, some 15 gentlemen have taken him up on this. But Burkard was denied a transfer. Brennecke and I also toyed with the idea, but decided against it, as we hope to get a quicker release from here.</p><p>In exchange, we got some additions from the main camp, probably about 10 men, among them Mr Scharff, whom we got to know the first time in Liverpool, and Mr Edwards alias Eichengrün, the manager of Continentale Gummi Co. in Hannover. The latter, a naturalised Australian, was a member of the volunteer automobile corps before the war, probably for business reasons, and was interned early in 1915, because he wrote in a letter to a friend that Germany "hopefully</p>