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+ given a bread soup consisting of Bread 
olive oil + water, very distasteable, but 
we were famished, after this we were 
taken into the barn again + anyone 
who happened to have any good clothes 
left was beaten up + the coats, pants or 
boots or jewelery was taken from him 
In a few hours we were taken in a square
+ lined up the sun was very hot + we could 
not get any water, several fellows fainted 
+ we broke our ranks but only for a few 
minutes, as sargeants + cabos beat us back 
into line with sticks + canes The top 
sargeant who was in charge of us was 
immediately named Sticky, every few days 
more internationals came to this camp untill 
we had over 600 men over 33 different 
nationalities we occupied 3 floors with 1 or two 
water taps + either 1 or two lavatories to 
each floor most of us were in rags + very 
lousy, no soap, or towels, + we had to 
sleep on cement or board floors which 
were all broken + very dirty, plenty of rats 
+ mice, bugs lice + fleas, + no way to