Molony, William O'Sullivan, Diary, 7 August 1914

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W.O. Molony diary, [page 91]
Case Study: 
A British Teenager Caught Up in the First World War: William O’Sullivan Molony
Creator: 
Molony, William O'Sullivan
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diary
Date: 
7 August 1914
Place: Berlin
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McMaster University Libraries
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Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

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00000560
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eng
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[page 91]
A great many Britishers and most of the niggers, who had no passports, were sent to a fortress at Spandau. I have also heard that most of the French and Russians have been sent to various fortresses or barracks.
They will be kept there as prisoners of war, until peace is arranged.
I was very pleased to have escaped so easily—it was mainly through a certain amount of military friends and their influence, that I got off as well as I did. I must, as is only just, add that under the circumstances we were treated extremely well and fairly—in some cases great sympathy was shown by the police—to the niggers especially.
The Germans do not hate the British for what they have done—they recognize in England’s present policy, the work of the so-called “brilliant”? liberal party—but they are bitterly disappointed, when they think that England in whom they had so long trusted, should