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

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W.O. Molony diary, [page 89]
Case Study: 
A British Teenager Caught Up in the First World War: William O’Sullivan Molony
Creator: 
Molony, William O'Sullivan
Source: 
diary
Date: 
7 August 1914
Place: Berlin
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Contributer: 
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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00000557
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eng
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image
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jpg
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[page 89]
time to consider—for when I had started putting two and two together to find out the reasons etc., I was given a mighty shove from behind, and found myself flying between two door posts, into the very arms of one of the commanding police officers. He grumbled rather and told me to wake up—“it was no place for dreaming.”
We were then sent to various cells, together with a number of loathsome French and Russians, and were not even spared the disgusting presence of a great number of dirting [sic] looking, oily-faced niggers from the colonies. Our cells were guarded by police with drawn swords and revolvers.
I think we had been waiting there almost two hours, standing, packed together in the boiling-heat of an August day, when some officials came and searched us from head to foot.
We were all pleased when the “Polizeiwagen” arrived, to take us to the “Polizeiamt” at Alexanderplatz. We were all conveyed under a guard of military police, first of all down the “Tiergartenstrasse”, then under the