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Arriving at the station in the early hours of the morning
we were marched through a particularly heavy snow storm and on arriving at the camp were put into cells immediately. In the morning we were taken to the reception room, where after waiting about a week were given our trial «- when we started on our fourteen days solitary confinement.
We had a pretty cold fourteen days for we were under the ground in cellars, and what with the intense cold (not to mention [the soldier's "inveterate companion " the inevitable "chat") land the fact of there being a hitch in the smuggling of English food to us, we experienced anything but a picnic.
We were very much amused at seeing quite a number of familiar faces that we had met before, doing time for the same offence as we were. Amongst them were two of the party who had attempted their escape with us and who had been caught very early in the night, not having succeeded in crossing the Rhine, We also learnt 1 that the other two, Pitts & Choate, had been successful.
Christmas and New Year passed in these anything but pleasurable conditions and we were released about the 2nd Jany.
Camp conditions were the same as we had found them before - still [the same intriguing,for we had no difficulty in obtaining another compass and getting our clothing fixed up for our next attempt.
After two days in the camp we were sent back to Dusseldorf, (staying there a night, but as the Germans wouldn't entertain the [thought of our remaining, we were sent back to the camp at Munster,