Identifier: inruhlebenletter00slad (find matches)
Title: In Ruhleben, letters from a prisoner to his mother, with an account of the "university" life, classes, sports, good, accommodation, etc., of the internment camp of British prisoners
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German Ruhleben
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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se, withgoal-posts or cricket-stumps, golf-green-flags,tennis-nets and other hubs of British sport,rising out of the turf. Item: Four thousand British men, sur-prisingly British in their appearance, in spiteof the makeshifts of poverty; some of themengaged in a desperate rivalry of sport, whichfor the time takes away the knowledge of Goodand Evil that Eve gathered from the fatal tree ;some of them, too old or too unsuited for sport,engaged in eternal walks and talks, which leadnowhere, but are conducted with the cheerinesswhich combats the idea of being down-hearted ;and some of them, both old and young, doingthe Englishmans grouse, with more excusethan usual. Item : The pipes and the cigarettes in themouths of the golfers and those engaged inother sports not too strenuous, and all thewalkers and talkers who are not non-smokers or stony-broke. These walkers and talkers, the players such asare not too strenuously engaged in sport for theeveryday man in them to be showing—how would 14
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(Reproduced by permission from The Graphic. Birds-eye view of the Racecourse at Ruhleben, showing on the left the GrandStand in which the classes and entertainments were held, and on the right thebarracks in which the prisoners lived. (Facing p. 14. Introduction he have to depict them ? Not a high per-centage (except merchants in business in Ger-many) as important, wealthy or middle-agedpeople—and these, such as they were, chieflytaking cures when the evil day broke ; a certainnumber of persons who have been studyingmusic and art; the first rush of summer holiday-makers, among whom Mr. Hughes saw mostconspicuously undergraduates, Public-Schoolmasters and invalids for the spas; most ofthe golf professionals of Germany; a fewunclaimed jockeys and trainers; but aboveall, the seamen and ships stewards from theBritish ships which were in German harbourswhen the war started ; foremen and workmenwho were teaching German factories how tocapture British trade—small luck to them;and—perha

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