POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 157

• June 28, 2017 00:57:54 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  The N.C.O. usually present was a socialist. The local

  tailor must have decreased 12" in girth, [insert] during the time i saw him[/insert] He was always on

  the subject of privations. I got a suit of mufti from this

   [insert] fellow: a criminal offence [/insert] local tailor. [insert] One and all [/insert] All they wanted was money.

  Our place was a mass of Flag Poles. There were no less

  than 4 in official use. On the occasion of "Fahnen  ... "

  the flags of the 4 central powers flew from the varrious

  poles- except the one at the top of the house which only

  flew the German rag.  When we asked on the occassion

  of the success! of the last German Loan why the flags

  were up. the sentry whose job it was replied "another

   ... "

  One day a drunken Russian on appel dashed up to the flag

  pole & tried to pull the flags down & he and the German

  officer had a shouting match. I think the matter ended

  there.

  Our letters during the greatest part of our at time [insert] my stay [/insert] were

  censored at Osnabruck. There were two censors P3 & P7.

  P3 used to make remarks in pencil. It was an un-

  -satisfactory arrangement & one was always complaining

  of the delay in receipt of letters & the time they took

  to get home. The first censoring was done at Hamel & I 

  think it was even worse there. I personally have any

  amount of letters  ... 

  We elected to dig out tunnel from the bottom hut into the

  covered drain. In summer there was little water in it

  
  

  
  

• June 28, 2017 00:55:56 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  The N.C.O. usually present was a socialist. The local

  tailor must have decreased 12" in girth, [insert] during the time i saw him[/insert] He was always on

  the subject of privations. I got a suit of mufti from this

   [insert] fellow: a criminal offence [/insert] local tailor. [insert] One and all [/insert] All they wanted was money.

  Our place was a mass of Flag Poles. There were no less

  than 4 in official use. On the occasion of "Fahnen  ... "

  the flags of the 4 central powers flew from the varrious

  poles- except the one at the top of the house which only

  flew the German rag.  When we asked on the occassion

  of the success! of the last German Loan why the flags

  were up. the sentry whose job it was replied "another

   ... "

  One day a drunken Russian on appel dashed up to the flag

  pole & tried to pull the flags down & he and the German

  officer had a shouting match. I think the matter ended

  there.

  Our letters during the greatest part of our at time [insert] my stay [/insert] were

  censored at Osnabruck. There were two censors P3 & P7.

  P3 used to make remarks in pencil. It was an un-

  -satisfactory arrangement & one was always complaining

  of the delay in receipt of letters & the time they took

  
  

  
  

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• June 28, 2017 00:55:11 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  The N.C.O. usually present was a socialist. The local

  tailor must have decreased 12" in girth, [insert] during the time i saw him[/insert] He was always on

  the subject of privations. I got a suit of mufti from this

   [insert] fellow: a criminal offence [/insert] local tailor. [insert] One and all [/insert] All they wanted was money.

  Our place was a mass of Flag Poles. There were no less

  than 4 in official use. On the occasion of "Fahnen  ... "

  the flags of the 4 central powers flew from the varrious

  poles- except the one at the top of the house which only

  flew the German rag.  When we asked on the occassion

  of the success! of the last German Loan why the flags

  were up. the sentry whose job it was replied "another

   ... "

  One day a drunken Russian on appel dashed up to the flag

  pole & tried to pull the flags down & he and the German

  officer had a shouting match. I think the matter ended

  there.

  Our letters during the greatest part of our at time [insert] my stay [/insert] were

  censored at Osnabruck. There were two censors P3 & P7.

  P3 used to make remarks in pencil. It was an un-

  
  

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• June 28, 2017 00:53:07 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  The N.C.O. usually present was a socialist. The local

  tailor must have decreased 12" in girth, [insert] during the time i saw him[/insert] He was always on

  the subject of privations. I got a suit of mufti from this

   [insert] fellow: a criminal offence [/insert] local tailor. [insert] One and all [/insert] All they wanted was money.

  Our place was a mass of Flag Poles. There were no less

  than 4 in official use. On the occasion of "Fahnen  ... "

  the flags of the 4 central powers flew from the varrious

  poles- except the one at the top of the house which only

  flew the German rag.  When we asked on the occassion

  of the success! of the last German Loan why the flags

  were up. the sentry whose job it was replied "another

   ... "

  One day a drunken Russian on appel dashed up to the flag

  pole & tried to pull the flags down & he and the German

  officer had a shouting match. I think the matter ended

  there.

  
  

  
  

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• June 28, 2017 00:48:17 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  The N.C.O. usually present was a socialist. The local

  tailor must have decreased 12" in girth, [insert] during the time i saw him[/insert] He was always on

  the subject of privations. I got a suit of mufti from this

   [insert] fellow: a criminal offence [/insert] local tailor. [insert] One and all [/insert] All they wanted was money.

  
  

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• June 27, 2017 21:18:01 Annick Rodriguez

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  A hair cutter came twice a week with a boy of about 11. There

  was a Lady who sold watches some with luminous dails.

  Then is a local tailor & a tailor from Halle the latter,

  was a kind of cheap jack  & [insert] who [/insert] must have coined money.

  
  

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