Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Passengers of the U. S. liner President Garfield which docked last week in Manhattan told of seeing "6,000 or more" Italian prisoners (probably an exaggeration, for these Italian prisoners must have been taken before the Battle of the Marmarica) aboard the Cunarder Queen Mary in Bombay, en route to prison in Australia, whence the Queen will soon fetch 16,000 more Anzacs for the Middle East. In Bombay also they saw the He de France, idle; at Cape Town, the Queen Elizabeth, at anchor...
Next Wodehouse was reported to be in a prison camp at Huy in Belgium. To a request for information about Wodehouse, or his release, signed by U. S. writers, editors, theatrical producers, the German charge d'affaires in Washington, Hans Thomsen, replied that Wodehouse was "quite comfortable." "You may rest assured that the American friends of Mr. Wodehouse . . . need not feel any anxiety about his fate as far as the German authorities are concerned." Doubtless there was no anxiety about Wodehouse's fate as far as the German authorities were concerned...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
...camp holds some 1,000 British civilians caught by the Nazis in the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, on the high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along...
...Wodehouse was wearing grey flannels, a tweed jacket. Asked if there was anything he wanted, P. G. said: "You know I write. Well, I find it difficult to write in a room with 60 other people. Could you arrange to get me a room alone?" The head of the prison said it could be arranged...