27 Apr 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Raining, colder.

Truck hub.

Steve gave me Suk Yin.

2oz oil & 3oz Salt issued.

Stalin’s son as hostage. Big concentration of war vessels W of Luzon. Montgomery for Norway. Kesselring to conduct guerrilla warfare from Oslo. Laval not allowed entrance into Switzerland. W.Sumatra bombarded & good progress made in Burma. Nearly 800,000 homes destroyed & 3 million homeless in Japan due to bombing.

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