POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 61

• June 21, 2017 01:04:32 Annick Rodriguez

                                                      32. 

  At 8 a.m. there was an appel & we abd our kits were marched

  to a kind of cellar. Besides my ring I had about a killo of

  tobacco this was impossible to hide. Under the flour seemed the

  obvious solution but the Frenchmans  ...  had made this

  place a morass. Ultimately I left it in my cupboard never

  expecting to see it again.

  From the cellar we were marched one by one into the objectives

  hands. After numerous indignities & poorer by 2 8 0 bits I got

  back to my room at tea time. Our room was in a

  beautiful state, bedding all over the place. The Germans had

  been having a great time here. Right in the centre of the

  floor was a tin box still full of French Louis. My tobacco

  was untouched.  ... 

  But the Germans had not I regret to say drawn altogether

  blank. Many officers were caught in the cellar with all

  their goods on them - they had believed the story of a move.

  Now the Roman Catholics used this cellar to hold mass X oo

  what more natural than to bury their gold. It was in

  fact so natural that it struck the German Grain & he

  dug next morning, to find a golden harvest.

  But what they got was not a  ...  of what escaped them  ...  ... 
  
  

  I now come to the incident of the window. This I think was

  the cause of my being moved. The window at the far end of the

  room was glazed  in order that one could not see out if it. Of

  course holes had been scratched but ones view was limited.

  One day I opened it wide. It looked out on to a dry

  moat & had a big stone [insert] sell [/insert]still. Beyond was a field

  & various buildings. This field was bounded by a

  canal over which a foot bridge could be seen. Straight

  in front was a sentry box & the sentries beat. Hearing

  
  

• June 21, 2017 00:56:29 Annick Rodriguez

                                                      32. 

  At 8 a.m. there was an appel & we abd our kits were marched

  to a kind of cellar. Besides my ring I had about a killo of

  tobacco this was impossible to hide. Under the flour seemed the

  obvious solution but the Frenchmans  ...  had made this

  place a morass. Ultimately I left it in my cupboard never

  expecting to see it again.

  From the cellar we were marched one by one into the objectives

  hands. After numerous indignities & poorer by 2 8 0 bits I got

  back to my room at tea time. Our room was in a

  beautiful state, bedding all over the place. The Germans had

  been having a great time here. Right in the centre of the

  floor was a tin box still full of French Louis. My tobacco

  was untouched.  ... 

  But the Germans had not I regret to say drawn altogether

  blank. Many officers were caught in the cellar with all

  their goods on them - they had believed the story of a move.

  Now the Roman Catholics used this cellar to hold mass X oo

  what more natural than to bury their gold. It was in

  fact so natural that it struck the German Grain & he

  dug next morning, to find a golden harvest.

  But what they got was not a  ...  of what escaped them  ...  ... 
  
  

  I now come to the incident of the window. This I think was

  the cause of my being moved. The window at the far end of the

  room was glazed  in order that one could not see out if it. Of

  course holes had been scratched but ones view was limited.

  One day I opened it wide. It looked out on to a dry

  moat & had a big stone still.

  
  

  
  

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• June 21, 2017 00:53:31 Annick Rodriguez

                                                      32. 

  At 8 a.m. there was an appel & we abd our kits were marched

  to a kind of cellar. Besides my ring I had about a killo of

  tobacco this was impossible to hide. Under the flour seemed the

  obvious solution but the Frenchmans  ...  had made this

  place a morass. Ultimately I left it in my cupboard never

  expecting to see it again.

  From the cellar we were marched one by one into the objectives

  hands. After numerous indignities & poorer by 2 8 0 bits I got

  back to my room at tea time. Our room was in a

  beautiful state, bedding all over the place. The Germans had

  been having a great time here. Right in the centre of the

  floor was a tin box still full of French Louis. My tobacco

  was untouched.  ... 

  But the Germans had not I regret to say drawn altogether

  blank. Many officers were caught in the cellar with all

  their goods on them - they had believed the story of a move.

  Now the Roman Catholics used this cellar to hold mass X oo

  what more natural than to bury their gold. It was in

  fact so natural that it struck the German Grain & he

  dug next morning, to find a golden harvest.

  But what they got was not a  ...  of what escaped them  ...  ... 
  
  

  I now come to the incident of the window. This I think was

  the cause of my being moved. The window at the far end of the

  room was 

  
  

  
  

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