Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 166
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[Page 166]
Besides the British there are French, Italians, a Roumanian somebody & a Serbian Colonel.
To resume:-
After appel one looks in at the library or has a walk on our one exercise ground (parole leave is quite unknown in Karlsruhe.) & lunch is at 1. pm.
Owing to the crush there are two sittings; the first roughly, the seating is in order of precedence (By the way, the Hun Bureau have allotted me an honorary lieutenancy. I am Lieut. Alex. and as such swish past the Saluting Base before lowly "one-pippers".) Lunch consists of soup, (very, very weak,) potatoes, a unique and every-present dish consisting of sugar beet from which the sugar has been extracted, thus leaving a sort of edible fibre, sometimes salad of dandelions, & a small quantity of meat twice a week.