Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 57
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[Page 57]
I did the fancy business & she said – Come in - Beer or tea? Beer – a bottle each she said? - Not we – one between us – I introduced H as the nephew of the author of King Solomon's Mines – Allan Quarterman & She – She was very glad to see us - She was Grandma Wylde & with her husband on a visit to her daughter who had married a German Naval officer who was quartered at Rabaul - War broke out & they were made prisoners - The General wasn't at all well treated by some of the Germans – eventually however he gave his parole & he & his wife have had to remain in their son in law's grounds until we came & captured the place - She showed us telegrams which gave us all that is known about Europe & really it read splendidly in these out of the way parts – that, Germany was being rolled back by the allies & that the fighting on land was in our favor – which really we hardly expected - Her daughter was out - She confirmed my opinion that the ships were lying in a sea flooded crater of great depth - What a grand view of the harbor