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<p>[Page 66]</p><p>that the committee doesn’t do anything against it. The gamblers are a rather mixed lot, from tailor and shoemaker to the chairman of the committee. The tailor recently lost all his hard-won savings and next day demanded, in tears, that the committee reimburse him. Hopefully, he has come to his senses now and will stay away from now on. Unfortunately, gambling and drinking are not even the worst of it, as two low-life characters have now also introduced some highly deplorable perversities among the younger people. I wonder if such things go on in other camps as well? It’s hardly surprising, though, that men who have been in captivity for three years now and are surrounded by nothing but fellow men, would start having the queerest ideas. England’s crime of keeping healthy, robust men as we are in captivity year in, year out, can never be redeemed. Daily one comes to realise just how much internment</p>