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17/8/16. I was greatly surprised to hear, upon returning from the beach for lunch, that a cousin of mine had arrived. I was racking my brains as to who this cousin could be when Mr [Lenzstein?] from Borneo approached me. Although he is not a relative of mine, he is related to my wife and so I welcomed him warmly. He arrived in Australia in early June after having been interned since March of this year near Jesselton, as were all of Borneo’s Germans. They were very well treated there, as we were in Singapore, but had to make the voyage to Australia in the belly of a coal ship. But at least they had the good fortune of staying free that long. All up about 20 men came on the coal ship, some of them from Singapore and among those Mr Leo Stein from my company. Mr Stein pretended to be a Russian because his father was living in Germany as a non-naturalised Pole before the war. He himself was born in Germany. For a while they believed him,