Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 91
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[Page 91]
Naval Officer's leave - That's a nuisance but it's orders & there's an end of it - Some of our Seamen are in trouble for [indecipherable] cargo – needless to say the cargo in question was unguarded liquor - Both Tars & Tommies regard liquor just as children do sweets & jam & as you've got to keep the latter locked up, so you must the liquor - They should put me in charge of all the liquor - I'd see it wasn't touched for I'd [indecipherable] it all in - What a lot of trouble & folly it wd - save but how you'd be disliked=
Buz has it – the Australian fleet & the Frenchmen are off out somewhere & that the Japanese flag ship is coming in & that a Jap Admiral is to be in charge of all of us - What we want with Frenchmen & Japs down here is a mystery to all of us but of course we are the puppets & not the Head quarters -
Buz has it that the Grantala is a very proper strict ship - No larking there - Everyone has to be sterilised twice a day!!! No fruit from the shore & no shore water allowed & everyone got to take his quinine daily - Well – well – my result & that is – health for one & all – is maintained at far less cost & irritation -