POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 125

• June 23, 2017 13:39:18 L G

  O. Another of his fads was fire alarm. In the end he

  had a kind of fire guard formed. The English Commanders

  only qualification for the job was that he had broken

  one of the German Fire Exstiquishers - These Exstinquishers

  were tried once on a bonfire which as far as I could 

  see burnt more brilliantly than before.

  Again the English orderlies were in the habit of paying

  the Russian orderlies either in money or food to do

  the very dirty work. As the Russians got neither of

  these every one was satisfied. But the Russian General

  considering  the idea infra dig: to the Russian

  Army - forbade it.

  Just before I left the orderlies were taken over by the

  Germans - with the idea of having the place clean by ten.

  The orderly in my room was a very hard working but

  slow North Sea fisherman who had been caught on the

  King Stephen. He had three rooms to do, and the last

  was usually finished about noon. I dont know how

  the problem was solved.

   
  

  
  

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