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19172nd June (cont.)Finally we were passed by a doctor, our clothes we given back to us (my lot minus a long scarf which had taken the fancy of some German gent.), we were graciously permitted to dress and were then sent down a wooden ladder-way into the hold;– the Prisoner's Quarters.
We could not see anything for a few moments but a smoke haze and the excited crowd of grimy, half-dressed Britishers who bombarded us with questions. Later we discovered the place to be the upper nr 4 hold – previously used as a mine chamber. Through holes in the bulkhead we were shown over 200 mines resting on long rows on the mine-rails in nr 3 hold. In nr 4. were herded together a queer collection of nearly a hundred prisoners.
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