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they didn’t want to send him off via America and have now offered him passage on an English steamer via the Cape. It seems they’re stalling his discharge; if he did get to England, he’d just be interned again.
We are now greatly worried about our main luggage in Sydney. During the most recent visit of the American consul, [Auerbach?] protested about his missing luggage, which he says contains many valuable Malaysian manuscripts and own works at an estimated
value of £1500. Now he was told by the American that his things were at the Argyle Dock in Sydney but that the Minister of Defence refused to take responsibility for it. Hopefully all our stuff is still there because for each of us there’s quite a bit of value involved. We plan to stake a claim for the total amount so as to force delivery, maybe.
Internment camp diary, September 1915-September 1916, from:
Personal papers of prisoners interned during World War I, mainly diaries, notes and correspondence, 1915 -1919
MLMSS 261/Box 6/Item 57
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
In the evenings, in the hall, we now often have lectures, etc. Recently we had an evening in memory of the Emden, at which Mr Gerbrecht held a speech and also sang. Furthermore, Mr Täufert, the director of the New Guinea camp, gave