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Thursday 17th Sept
Governor came in and surrendered & a party of "H" 60 men selected from :H" Company started for Toma to bring in a portable wireless plant. The rest of us remained behind & ate more cocoanuts.
Friday 18th September
Ate more cocoanuts
Saturday 19th September
All other companies went aboard, & after doing a good amount of fatigue we started at 4 oclock for Toma & put up a record marching arriving at 7. Here we were met by two German officers who treated us with great courtesy & put us up for the night in a bush house. Here we tasted the first beer which arrived per medium of the owner of the plantation who brought half a dozen bottles of lager
Sunday 20th September
All day we lay under the shadow of the bamboos to await the arrival of the rest of the column. During the morning two despatch riders came up & reported that the rest of "H" were labouring under heavy conditions, some twenty miles further on & would not arrive at Herb. Until tomorrow night. They reported that our prisoners were in large numbers & that they also had partaken of the hospitality of the German officers. During the morning we had an opportunity of witnessing some of