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5th August 1915. Yesterday, instead of the Melbourne people we were expecting, some 150 men from Colombo arrived, and another lot of similar size is to follow. There are about 30 people from the “Emden” (critically injured, who could not be sent on to Malta), about 50 seamen, and the rest are merchants from Colombo, plantation people from Colombo and Sumatra, about 15 catholic priests and 3 buddhist priests. The latter, in their yellow robes, are seemingly a less appreciated addition and the camp has already nicknamed them canaries. I cannot understand Europeans who constantly dress in native clothes and live
like natives. If they do so while actually living among the natives, it’s halfway excusable, but
to do so in a prison camp among all the Germans is ridiculous. The Colombo people, practically all in sports dress or jodhpurs, seem at bit blasé at first, but hopefully turn out to be nice. Gerbrecht of the Kaiserbrauerei Bremen [the imperial brewery of Bremen] is
among