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<p>[Page 21]</p><p>appreciation of the facts. Of course it's no wonder given that Consul Johannsen from Newcastle, who was recalled more than a year ago, is said to have sent nothing but glowing reports about us. Several comrades had asked him to look up their relatives in Germany and then received letters from those relatives expressing their joy about hearing from Consul J. how well we were being treated in Australia. The man has really harmed us with his reports, instead of working towards our release at the Foreign Affairs Department. Particularly we 45-year-olds had begged him to advocate our release, but he doesn't seem to have done anything in that regard, hasn't even written to us, and all the reports and rumours that we were to be released have since died down. We have applied to the Visitor, Justice Harvey, and the Defence Minister, both orally and in writing, but without any success whatsoever. - Another matter we had asked Consul J. to raise in Germany was the exchange rate for the Mark to the pound sterling. We have learned that the Germans Englishmen interned in</p>