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Those improvements we have suggested, he promises to get them done, but seemingly with the intention not to keep the promise, since none of our wishes has so far been fulfilled. His next-in-command and his deputy when he is away is Capt. Griffith, a former [real] estate broker in Sydney who makes a very unpleasant impression. But the chief person in the administration seems to be a Mr Meyer, whose rank is sergeant lieutenant. Of German extraction, from Alsace Lorraine, he is uncouth and illiterate and seems to hate Germans with a vengeance, pretending not to understand German. He is really a medical official but rules the whole camp and makes life hard wherever he can. A piece of paper lying in front of a barrack or a curtain that hasn’t been pulled up in the morning will cost the barrack residents 1/.- per head. The vulgar language the man uses on such occasions can’t be repeated here. Shortly before our arrival, he put a comrade, Timmermann, into
the camp prison, the Kallabush, over a trivial matter, where