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08 May 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

New meal times - NOON & 6 p.m. Sundays 11 a.m.& 6 p.m. 

Sandbach addressed Blocks in compound 

8 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Cookhouse all day.

Finer.

Italian negotiations still going on & some warships of theirs surrendered at Alexandria.

Three German towns wiped out & three Jap towns bombed. Japs protest to Russians re allowing USA to use Vladivostock as airbase, Russians reply “Come & stop them”.

Jap games (?) in Burma cost them severe losses in men etc.

20,000 French come over to British in Madagascar.

B.E.F. hold a line in France. Vichy French attack their rear.