79 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Oil came, we had 2 ounce issue each.

Soap issue.

Apparently fighting still going on in Berlin and Europe - not the end yet.

Clifton's father went to hospital yesterday. Clifton not well today. 

Junior club meeting on cold windy evening in Block 3 stairway.

Am forging ahead with writing 'Theo' story.

Face slapping (Gray, Van der Lely, Seymour) ((Possibly Eve Gray, not sure which of the Van der Lely family, or Seymours this referred to.))

(Formosans & black marketers)

(Bulletin)

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.