Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 69
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[Page 69]
We'v no sickness & so far as I can learn we are not likely – until the rain comes – to have any - We seem to be in a dry belt & they tell me Port Moresby which is some 30 hours steam from here is also in a dry belt, There's another physical feature that I've heard of & that is that typhoons don't occur within 12 degrees N & S of the line - Why? I don't know -
A party of us went to the Beach in the aftn - & saw some interesting things - First was the embarkation of German prisoners on a barge going to the collier Murex - They were off to Sydney - A detachment of Tommies with their Officers took charge - The soldiers some 25 in number were in the hold & a couple of German officers on the deck - Some 6 Tommies mounted guard with fixed bayonets - We saw them all off – the Germans will be interned in Sydney until the end of the war - They looked all right & of course will be well looked after - I am told that the German officers