it will be shut off just when it is your turn. Many conversations are about certain places which are not quite up to expected standard without water and privacy.But we got an improvement on new subject. officially promised - Today the whole camp was cleaned for inspection of our ''General'' - but he did not appear. Perhaps, Perhaps the general is late?

There is a much discussed topic about the water supply in our huts that is supposed to run and doesn't. There are occasionally a few drops falling off the tap. That occurs sometimes in the morning and when you are about washing then it stops in the middle of it and no drop will descend from the tap any more. Therefore, you get your physical exercise by fetching pails of water from the only tap giving water with some regularity near the wire. Sometimes there are queues and if you are lucky the water is switched off just before it is your turn after 1/2 hour waiting. Water has become precious and everybody is looking forward to the times whenthe water will be running but perhaps we should change our living quarters while everything get finished. As there is plenty wood left over while erecting our huts people get into a rage of nailing boards together to produce some peculiar pieces of furniture. (Have a Variety evening in our group.)

. with results that correspond with the skill of its makers. I make a small bedside table and a cupboard which is later on fitted with sliding doors after our own construction.

Our camp political history gets very interesting. There is great discontent about the patterns of our clothes that were issued to us as if they are the same as POW are given to. More letters are sent to Ottawa about this and our state as refugees and conditions for insurance against accidents when doing lumbering.As relations to Camp Office get slightly strained and it said spokesman was under influence of a radical socialist whereby nothing could be said against him and there were new spokesmen elections . - At once relations to Camp Office grew very satisfactory again we were told though that was made only possible by abandoning all measures which the majority of camp inhabitants had approved of before. Now working parties may work with out having an idea whether they get insured or not. There are working parties for digging, ''engineering'', woodcutting and sawing and lumbering but on a very limited scale and a wage of 20 cents a day.

At last we succeeded in getting a
(RE PD)
canteen but now we need the money. Only few got accounts [???] who brought their money with them. Our group had several interesting lectures during the week.

Saturday, August 31, 1940: I got my first parcel though without any

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