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the walls are said to be covered with barbed wire so that inmates can’t lean against them. Since there are no benches or chairs, one has to lie on the floor to rest. They provide a rubber mat for sleeping, plus 2 blankets, but for the rest one lies on the bare ground. You become a resident of this place for the most trivial misdemeanours and it is not a pleasure to live there on just water and bread. Fortunately, it seems one can procure some food via the soldiers for a suitable fee.
So this is the camp in which we presumably have to spend several months. The approx.
500-600 men who were already here when we arrived, are mostly seamen and gentlemen from New Guinea. Only very few merchants or farmers from Australia itself have so far been interned.
Until now, money has been scarce and it was therefore difficult to find the resources for improvements from within the camp. Apart from a chess club with about 80 members and