Item 59: Internment camp diary, November 1917-August 1918 - Page 15

<p>[Page 15]</p><p>Pastor Stack on religious matters; Dr M&atilde;ller on geology, mountaineering, and one or the other camp inmates will occasionally report about earlier adventures in exotic lands, so that everybody can expand his knowledge one way or another.</p><p>Various comrades, many of whom are Tsingtao and Emden people, and Mr Buehn from Katz in Singapore are prepping for their exams in Germany. For them, too, a special school building was erected, funded by Lieutenant of the Reserves Marks, who participated in the siege of Tsingtao and who is originally an architect. He has been taking care of the Tsingtao soldiers who were brought to Australia in exemplary fashion. He has appealed to his acquaintances in Manila, Java, etc for funds, etc and has been so successful that these soldiers, who have served their homeland well in this war, don&#39;t lack anything. He is in sharp contrast to Lieutenant Gerdes from the &quot;Emden&quot;, who does next to nothing for the Emden people and still always insists on being saluted.</p>