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<p>[Page 54]</p><p>2nd/3/18.<br />The newspapers are full of reports about the feats of our raider "Wolf", which recently returned to Germany (some claim, to Pola) after a 1½-year absence. It has sunk 38 ships and a Japanese warship among them, and this really rankles with the Australians, the "Ratunga", a steamship that regularly commuted between Sydney and Rabaul. Various Australian officers and crews are now in German prison camps. It's a truly remarkable feat and we can only admire it. It was the same "Wolf" that laid the mines along the coast here and that explains the disquiet of the Australian government at the time. How great it would have been if it had been able to take us back to Europe and to the sorely missed homeland. I can imagine how its officers and crews are being celebrated.</p><p>9th/3/18.<br />Peace with Romania has now been achieved after all, as the gentlemen, cut off from all connections, had little choice. The main conditions seem to be the restitution of the whole Dobrudja [region] and a long-</p>