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<p>[Page 97]</p><p>even though they are not supposed to talk to us. They complain mainly of 2 things: the widespread poverty and the vermin. They say there are so many bugs and fleas that they no longer have a chance of exterminating them. In the Trial Bay barracks we also had the occasional bug, but here we have been spared so far. In the main camp, apparently, they wonder why we did not insist on removal of the fence from day one. We here are rather divided on this issue. We Bolsheviks are in favour of a removal, but a lot of the others, particularly those from Hong Kong, are totally opposed. I think those gentlemen are afraid of their own countrymen! Thus, the fence remains for now, and we Germans have to tolerate the Australian arbitrariness of keeping us in 2 separate camps. We feel a bit like tigers who are kept in different cages and who half purr, half roar at each other and can never get close. On the very first day after our arrival, the orchestra of the main camp serenaded us across the fence, but because the concert attracted</p>