Primary tabs
Transcription
because, supposedly, there is no steamship to San Francisco. I hope he gets out of there at all. Along with him Mr von Kessel was taken to L., and he was of course hoping to get discharged as well. Before they departed the choral society serenaded them, since they were the first of us about to taste freedom. Who could describe our astonishment then when a very disappointed Mr von Kessel returned after 8 days. It wasn’t him they wanted, but a Mr Kosel, an engineer from Sydney without whom a power station in Sydney cannot be finished. Such a mix-up and the implicit admission of helplessness without an imprisoned German are typical for the state of affairs here.
13/11/1915. Today I have walked across the whole area accessible to us. Everywhere you encounter vestiges and remnants of former buildings and equipment. Experts estimate the value of the scattered and totally corroded anchor chains, railway rails, trollies, etc at a still