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several inferior characters, I’m afraid to say, and our coexistence will suffer for it. Despite repeated complaints we still have not received the luggage that was stored in Sydney.
15/10/1915. In Liverpool, the state of affairs is said to be anything but pleasant. Burkard, who stayed on, gets very little appreciation for his work as committee chairman, as was to be expected. Those who recently arrived from L. said he even received threatening letters. There are now 2400 men in L. and there are bound to be many dubious characters among them. They say that some have organised into a group called “The black hand” which offers, against payment of a few shillings, to beat up people at night. It’s a sad report card these people give themselves. It seems Major Sands feels a bit wary about it all, because he had a tall tower erected, equipped with a machine gun that can spray the whole camp, at least in case