POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 165

• June 29, 2017 19:04:17 Annick Rodriguez

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  in it which I ought not to have. As my contraband was neither

  in my baggage or on my person there was no difficulty here.

  But it was a big rush & I only got on parade east to

  find the man who was to give me my ^[insert] contraband [/insert] notes had not turned

  up. I sent someone for him & got them at the very last

  moment.

  We left Clausthal amidst an six of straf -straf against the

  English- An Australian Flying officer who had been

  passed for Switzerland went off to do 2 yrs imprisonment

  which he had been awarded by a Court Martial for being

  so it was alleged too open in this criticisms of the German 

  Navy.  ...  2 officers off the Apam one Naval & the other military

  went off the a punishment camp because some German

  N.C.O in the Cameroons had been sentenced to a long

  imprisonment for being caught with sporting ammunition

  on his person. It was a Kaiserlich try to get his

  sentence reduced.

  x This officer arrived in Switerland in March having thus

  done 3 months imprisonment.

  
  

  
  

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