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the buildings they live in with chains as if to say that they’re above the rest.
Three days ago they finally approved [delivery of] our newspapers and the first ones are due to arrive today. Thank God! At last we’ll know a bit more of what’s happening in the world. Thus far, they have approved only the morning papers “Herald” and “Telegraph”, but not the evening paper “Sun”. For the occasional newspaper that the Pommies smuggled into camp we always had to pay horrendous prices. The starting price for a single issue usually was £1. The one we got to see the most regularly was “Steads Review” which at cost is worth 6d but for which we had to pay at least £2-£3. Reading it
once thus costs each person at least £1/. if not more. For us prisoners of war, however, it is definitely the best publication because, being a monthly, it summarises events fairly impartially. Stead is the only journalist in Australia who doesn’t take the same exaggerated line, but