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is largely unexplored and even just the plantations along the coast (mainly coconuts) are so profitable that the colony would have been self-sufficient by 1915 or 1916. The gold and platinum fields appear to be promising and it would be a pity if we were to lose this colony.
6.5.1916. A few days ago Mr Burkard arrived. He went through a hellish time in Liverpool and still has a black eye from a hiding. Because they are now interning all the unemployed in Australia as well, the Liverpool camp has grown substantially. More than
4500 men are reputedly there now and naturally, many are lazy and loath to work. Some of these have banded together as the so-called “Black Hand” and are trying to extort money from the wealthier inmates. If they’re not being humoured right away, they ambush their victims at night and beat them up, and often rob them as well. Because of the brutal ways of the “Black Hand” conditions in L. deteriorated more and more, and Burkard resigned from his office on January 1. Despite several