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part of the central business district, we moved through various suburbs built in typically English style. Long street blocks with small, minute, uniform houses. A lot of these are so small that apart from a porch they seem to have just 2-3 rooms, and a small backyard. The whole area is rather bleak, the streets almost completely tree-less. Occasionally you see a tennis court or a football field, but on the whole there is very little variety. Gradually the railway track steepens and after stopping briefly at a few stations to let trains from the opposite direction pass, and trying in vain to buy some newspapers, we arrive at Liverpool Station at 4pm. Our arrival must have been pre-advised because throngs of people crowded the station and the adjacent streets.
The train was moved to a side track and we had to line up, 4 deep, on the platform. After a body count, and laden with our hand luggage, we began the march to the prison camp about 6 miles away. The other luggage that we had brought along in the ship cabins would follow us to the camp the next day. The remarks