TCD MS 10823 folio 44 recto
[Nov 1918] were now allowed much more freedom, & could roam about the country, though towns and villages were out of bounds. There were one or two inns where it was possible on the quiet to get quite a good meal without meal tickets, but the proprietors had to be very careful about doing so, as they were liable to heavy penalties. It was lucky that we could occasionally get a good meal this way, as after the armistice scarcely any parcels arrived at all. They were stolen wholesale en route. Some parcels to my knowledge arrived containing only empty tins and straw; in one case they had gone so far as to eat all the dates, <and> put back the stones into the parcel.
All through November the camp was getting more and more restless, as after the Armistice, we were all hoping to get back very soon, and time dragged dreadfully slowly. We were always expecting that orders might come at any instant for us to go away, but in vain.
Mad Harry left us under the pretext of bad health. He left in civilian clothes and we were told that he tried to get across into a neutral country, but was stopped on the way and sent back to Hanover. The Germans disliked him nearly as much as we did, and I hope he will yet be brought to justice.
<He was succeeded as commandant> by an officer, who had already been at Clausthal, but had been sent away for striking a British Officer. The camp <however> protested against this appointment by not coming on Appel and he was sent away two days afterwards and a Captain Rautmann