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them and of him they say: ‘’God Almighty knows everything, but G. knows it better.’’ He
talks like a torrent, as he already did in Singapore. Then there are 2 [indecipherable], and a
3rd one is yet to arrive, and a Mr von Kessel, a former officer and now plantation owner in
Sumatra, the son of General von Kessel, the Commander of Berlin, plus a Mr von Felten, [indecipherable], known from the Wolff Metternich-Wertheim trial. The latter is said to have been discharged and may have to re-enlist as a private [Gemeiner?]. He is therefore not accepted as equal by the other reserve officers. The Colombo people were interned on the same day as we were, first in Ragama and then in [Dintalava?], The latter is high up in the mountains, near Nuwara Eliya. Apparently they were treated quite well all along. In D. they shared a camp with married people, who were housed in individual bungalows. They were divided into 3 classes, A, B and C, and the A class had its own club with tennis courts, etc and were officially allowed to buy 1 bottle of beer per man per day. Inofficially, a lot of whiskey also found its way