Diary pages from this date

Fried fish today - lovely.

Glasses gone for re-framing ((hopefully sent in to town - the bridge across the nose broke during the war, and since then the lenses were tied on to the frames of an old pair of sunglasses.))

At another Extraordinary Meeting called because of the 'Cheng crisis', the Temporary Committee hears a letter from Selwyn-Clarke to French banker Paul de Roux - the idea of a committee in town that will raise money to carry out relief work is eventually to give birth to the Informal Welfare Committee.

Source:

John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter IV, page 17

Twenty-five elderly internees from Stanley admitted to the French Hospital in Causeway Bay.

Cold & drizzly. Stood 3hrs for 1lb tin of jam $1.