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heard from the crowd, and particularly from the soldiers who had disembarked from a military train a short while ago, were not pleasant, but we did not react to them. The soldiers seemed to be singing a satirical song lampooning the Kaiser [the German emperor Wilhelm] because the words ‘’Kaiser Bill’’ were repeated several times. Not long and these poor guys will soon realise, should they get to the front, that they won’t have an easy meal of us Germans and our Kaiser. The mood against us Germans seems to be much more incendiary here than in Sydney, where the spectators kept fairly quiet.
The march to the camp under the searing sun was not exactly one of the pleasures of life. And the distance was definitely greater than 6 miles, because we did not arrive in camp until 6.45pm. For the most part, we marched on a modest, very dusty country road. We passed fairly big military facilities, probably for the training of troops bound for the front. For the last leg we seemingly took a short cut, through bushland, over tree stumps and across hollows, etc. Not used to such marches we were glad to