POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 134

• June 26, 2017 15:42:43 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                66.

  The next room was also an English room & we had a common

  verandah so now we were fairly comfortable. These verandahs

  were now closed in. This recalls an incident in my first room

  [insert] when we first arrived [/insert]

  in those days the verandahs were open. I used to live next the

  outer door. Every night I came up last & used to find the room

  hermetrically sealed. I properly opened the door & slept in the

  fresh air. Now of my companions the Belgian liked air but was

  a great weak thing, the Frenchman did not mind it & the

  Russian loathed it- but the Russian was the only man in

  the Room. So there was bound to be a row. It came in the

  first real frost when the thermometer went below zero[insert] Farenheit [/insert] Farnheit

  and the Russian although he slept practically on the radiator

  and burried his head in his bed clothes for ho sleep - Next

  day he went to the Germans & said he was "preque fine",

  Of course my room mates gave me no assistance. The [insert] Hun [/insert] Germans

  issued an order that no window or door was to be open at

  night. After that I had strange to say little trouble as the

  door was always partly open. The inner wheels of the case

  I dont know. I think the Russian went to a compatriot &

  the compatriot complained. In any case he was all against

  obeying a German order. Also it was never as cold again

  whilst I was in that room as that night in Nov 1915.

  I now come to two absolute  ...  attempts to get out of

  the camp. The first originated in my friends brain I was

  for us three to lie up in the tennis court & then cut the

  wire & bolt. I had managed to steal a very fine wire

  cutter belonging to the electrician. The plan was quite

  feasible if it had not been for a loose dog in this

  field. That dog was rather a savage beast. And to be

  scouted was to be done. It meant for certain being shot.

• June 26, 2017 15:37:31 Annick Rodriguez

                                                                                66.

  The next room was also an English room & we had a common

  verandah so now we were fairly comfortable. These verandahs

  were now closed in. This recalls an incident in my first room

  [insert] when we first arrived [/insert]

  in those days the verandahs were open. I used to live next the

  outer door. Every night I came up last & used to find the room

  hermetrically sealed. I properly opened the door & slept in the

  fresh air. Now of my companions the Belgian liked air but was

  a great weak thing, the Frenchman did not mind it & the

  Russian loathed it- but the Russian was the only man in

  the Room. So there was bound to be a row. It came in the

  first real frost when the thermometer went below zero[insert] Farenheit [/insert] Farnheit

  and the Russian although he slept practically on the radiator

  and burried his head in his bed clothes for ho sleep - Next

  day he went to the Germans & said he was "preque fine",

  Of course my room mates gave me no assistance. The [insert] Hun [/insert] Germans

  issued an order that no window or door was to be open at

  
  

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• June 23, 2017 18:38:25 Annick Rodriguez

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  The next room was also an English room & we had a common

  verandah so now we were fairly comfortable. These verandahs

  were noe 

  
  

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