"[...]hampered efforts, if they were to get through.
In writing of them one must, in fact, put aside all idea that the care of prisoners is the business of their captors. In Turkey it has amounted to this-that British officers have been sent to live in places where at least it is very hard to keep body and soul together-have there been put under various restrictions and disadvantages-and have then been left to support themselves as best they might. They have had to pay for practically everything they needed beyond bare housing, and sometimes even for this.[...]".