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but now it doesn’t look like we’re getting out of here this year. When will we see our loved
ones again?
1st June 1915. The ‘’favourable movement in Sydney’’ seems to be leaving its mark, because today the Major had us Singapore people unofficially consulted on whether we were in favour of
‘’work and 1 shilling’’ or
‘’no work and no pay’’.
Most seem to favour the latter, but I suspect that The Hague Convention advocates ‘’no work and pay’’, a covenant that is never honoured.
An Austrian comrade, Mr Dressel, also from Singapore, and Mr Siebenkittl, secretary at the Austrian consulate in Bangkok, recently and foolishly gave a fellow prisoner who intended to escape some letters to be posted to the American consul. Unfortunately, that prisoner was apprehended soon after his escape and the letters were found. Both gentlemen were sentenced to 8 days in the Kallabush, which ended today. Before the gentlemen were led away, their luggage etc was searched