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whereupon the soldiers found some chocolate that was handed over to the officer in charge of the investigation. That one, you won’t believe this, was not too embarrassed to divvy [the chocolate] up among him and his soldiers, and to eat it too. For German standards, that’s hard to believe! Furthermore, Dressel lost a valuable golden cigarette case on this occasion and is not likely to ever see it again.
10th June 1915. Last Saturday, after the evening roll-call, the Commander ordered all internees to line up in a semi-circle. He then positioned himself, along with his officers and several soldiers, in the middle and held the following speech:
He said he wanted us to know that in the past few days several prisoners (4 in total) had tried to escape from the camp. They were, however, soon apprehended by guards of his Light Horse cavalry (general Ho Ho! and laughter) and put in prison. He said the camp was guarded day and night by Light Horse patrols as well as infantry sentries so that an escape