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Title: The Ruhleben camp magazine
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Ruhleben (Concentration camp) World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Berlin, J.S. Preuss, printer)
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law hasdeclared that, during hostilities it is extremely improbablethat an authoritative decision on the common law will ever begiven, and also further states iithat the reasonableness ofthe action is to be determined by the ordinary Courts whenpeace is restored. The title and whereabouts of this bookwill be supplied by nie to this would-be intellectual giant, orif any other gentleman is interested enough to apply to your-self, I will furnish (the necessary particulars on application.The remark about the five bob a week, undoubtedly made inorder to say something, however feeble, about the Relief Fund,is too weak to deserve any comment. If this gentleman must write something, and no one wishesto think his spirit is not quite willing, please ask him to writesomething sensible, and ^something worth reading. Yours etc., BITTER LAKES. Lay him to Rest in Gods acre, —Secure in his honest beliefs,That Heaven is prepared for the Junior,And H 1 is reserved for the chiefs I HOMEWARD BOUND. 17
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SICK BUT HAPPY! 18 THE AUTOCRAT AT THE RUHLEBEN TEA TABLE. THANKS mainly to my firmness and tact we are quite acomfortable little party jin our Box, although at timesChippendale shows himself lacking in the finer feelings ofmodesty and respect. When the Kultur epidemic first brokeout it was he who suggested that it be made a rule of theBox that none of its occupants should join any learned societyformed in the Camp, and we had all agreed. I had suspected for some time, however, that Prodgers waspreparing to blossom out into a High Brow. He had not hada hair-cut for some months, had recently purchased several ofMussets monumental shilling (volumes on Art and Literature,and had spoken frequently in terms of reverence and awe ofthe shining lights of the A. & S. U., who scintillate on Mondaysfrom 6.30 to 8 p. m., before their dazzled admirers andpitying fellow Supermen. Chippendale, whose mind seldom rises above Nelson 7d.novels, except when, by chance, he secures the loan of theDecam

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