At about 8 p.m. the officer in charge of the guards told us that 2 member of the British Consula hod called asking for our instant release; he said that he wes tunable to do this because he had implicit instructions to. keep close watch upon us, but he said would try and get into touch the Commissioner of Taxes, telling him that the Consul-General had asked for our release.
At about 9.30 p.m. my boy arrived] with a card from Mr. Tuson asking for permission for bearer to carry food into us; this was allowed, but before doing so the food had to be tasted by my boy and several mineral waters which had very thoughtfully been sent into us had also to be opened and tasted; this of course spoiled the unconsumed ones.
At 6 am. all the prisoners were all wakened, and all the lavatory refuse and urine was carried out under armed guard, and I can only leave you to imagine what a fright. fal condition of affairs there would be; there were one or two small bowls of water put into the cell, and quickly rinsed my face before they could be used by the rest of the prisoner At 8 clock the officer for some reason or other relaxed his harsh treatment and ordered us out of the cell into his own room and there we had our first breath of fresh air.
Tt was in this room that we had our breakfast, brought in by my boy, bat again after it had been again tasted. In my opinion the officer had received instractions to let us out probably thinking that we would get 2 visit from the British Consulate, and that they did not want to create 4 bad impression by letting them see us in the filthy cell.
As my watch had stopped 1 had proper idea of the time, but I think it would be about 11.15 a.m. that we were ordered to be taken upstairs to the top floor of the building. There we were asked a few questions about the proceedings of the day before, and were then taken tothe Ministry of Foreign Affairs and after a wait of about half an hour we were joined by Mr. Tuson; after the necessary formality of receiving us, we were allowced to proceed free.
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