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<p>[Page 61]</p><p>addressed to the 3 afore-mentioned gentlemen, the content as described above. Messrs Dornmähle, Steinhorst and Neubrunner approached almost all camp members to coax signatures from them and actually managed to get 261 from about 500. Many have signed without properly reading the letter, or out of indifference, as they sign anything that is put in front of them, or because they feared for their jobs, namely, all the kitchen hands. The actual author of the letter is, not surprisingly, Ermakeil, and this is what it says:</p><p>Trial Bay, 22 March 1918<br />To Messrs Burkard, Wehrs and Hering<br />The undersigned think the moment has come to inform you that the interest you have shown for some time in the internal administration of the camp only serves to disrupt peace and order. Everything you have undertaken so far does not at all further our life in camp, which since the strike of 1916 and thanks to the</p>