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The younger camp residents have built 3 tennis courts and a bowling alley, paid for by everybody, which greatly enhance our pastime. Among the gentlemen from Colombo is a Mr Spitz, who plays even better than Mäding. Shortly there will be a tennis tournament. Thus, much is being done to make camp life more bearable. But captivity remains captivity!
15/7/16. The reports that are now being published in the papers clearly demonstrate the immense agitation and depression that must have reigned in England in the first days after the battle of Jutland. The Sydney Morning Herald’s correspondent writes in exactly these word [following quote in English]:
It was almost too much for London, and not even London can bear more than one such experience without visible sign that its outer fortress of imperturbable disdain of catastrophe is weakened and shaken.
One can clearly see from these lines that it was a complete German victory. A pity the English losses were not higher, because then we would have had a real chance of peace before long.