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<p>[Page 8]</p><p>when balancing the canteen books. When you consider that the canteen’s turnover is at least £1,000 a month and the profit thus has to be significant, this clearly shows the magnitude of the embezzlements. Three gentlemen – Burkard, Jehsen and Wild – personally had to underwrite the shortfall, and thankfully were prepared to do so. Under good management of the canteen, the amount should be written off within 2 months. The Garrison Institute in Sydney is in charge of purchasing all items. The sums that the prisoners spend here are really quite substantial, and many a one among us still doesn’t fully realise that we are engaged in a war that affects the existence of entire nations. The principle of “food holds together body and soul” may be a worthy concept but doesn’t need to be exaggerated. And yet for some time now we have had a restaurant in a little shack outside the gate, called Duck Coop, where one can get extra food for breakfast or lunch. While the generally available food is not to everybody’s liking and may not always be quite</p>