POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 167

• June 29, 2017 19:28:55 Annick Rodriguez

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  war. In fact the English speaking German seemed to wish to

  make himself pleasant. Always starting with the question "Now

  how long do you think that the war will last?" All were under

  the delusion that it would be over in the near future. Of

  course the Kaiser's peace proposals were then in the air at the

  same time the comments on the same in the Allies press was

  freely published in the German papers.

  On arrival at Contance I was marched to the camp which

  is a hospital in the local barracks on the German side

  of the Rhein. Here I spent 5 weeks in Barracks q. Barrack

  10 and the main building. The quarters in each were

  somewhat different.We were rushed before a Board on the

  morning of the 17th.. The result of the examination was

  given out on the morning of the 21st.. There were 2 other

  English before this commission they had arrived just before us.

  They were rejected and sent back to Hidelburg. We were

  told the 3 of us in course of time would go to Switzerland

  The place is all rules & regulations some good, some

  bad. One was only allowed out for exercise from 9-11 am

  & 3-5 pm. This was put up with a blind of excuse under

  neath to the effect that there were the same hours as

  the French allowed [insert] the German prisoners [/insert] at Lyons. The exercise ground was

  the court on which German Squads of recruits were

  working. Heree my exercise revolved itself into a

  miserable up & down in front of the main building.

  The weather was on the whole execrable. When we first

  arrived there was snow & frost and similar weather

  during our last week, but the rest of the time was

  rain & slush with a mild day or two in the middle

  There was a Canteen run by the Swiss in which

  
  

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