We get up at half past five, wash ourselves at the pump, eat breakfast which consists of coffee and black bread, and fall in at seven o’clock. We exercise until eleven, eat dinner at twelve and from three to five we exercise again. From five to six the guns are
cleaned.

Anonymous German Reservist
A German reservist in Manila, who shortly after the declaration of war in 1914, left to join the German defense forces in Tsingtao, China.
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August 20 and 21, 1914
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