1. Joe and his fellow internees were jubilant.

2. They were officially internees, rather than prisoners, and life, although monotonous and full of deprivation, was not brutal.

3. Finally one of the internee chairmen managed to sneak out to issue a protest with the high gendarme officers across town.

4. Like other internees, they lived in hastily built barracks with little privacy or basic comforts.

5. He departed with authorisation to release all young internees who were willing to join the Pioneer Corps.

6. One who is interned; an internee.

7. One of their demands was for a phased release of internees.

8. It was a bleak existence, but what struck Joe was how easily he and his fellow internees became accustomed to it.