Pain in chest and heart feeling tired.
Diary pages from this date
A day of torrential rain.
Journalist Gwen Dew and eleven other Americans are summoned to Japanese Headquarters. The group includes four other journalists, three Red Cross representatives and one Canadian.
Head of Foreign Affairs, Oda (Dew calls him Ota) gives them the first official news of the American repatriation. At this stage it's expected soon, and is limited to this small group, but over the next three months it will come to include almost all the Hong Kong Americans.
Source:
Gwen Dew, Prisoner Of The Japs, 1944, 140
AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Colin Luscombe:
Sudden change of weather – very wet & rather cold
Death – at K.W. Hosp. Albert, son of J.J. Osborne
News good in general & more optimism evident.
Rained.
Started shorthand.
Hill & I got over our campitis.
Shaved whiskers off.
AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Ron (Roland) Brooks in his Fire Brigade uniform, drawn on brown wrapping paper:
