Diary pages from this date

First day of my 5 days' holiday.

Mabel looks very pale ((still in hospital)).  She vomited all her tiffin today, it was pork. Dr said her blood pressure was better today.

Delightful piano recital at St Stephens - Mrs Drown and Ian Heath.

Dorothy Jenner notes in her diary that there's been a strike of vegetable cutters and wood cutters, who came out when their extra rations were cut due to camp shortages. In spite of the ringing slogan 'A matter of principle' the strikers meet with little sympathy, and section leader ('blockhead') Jenner soon fills their places with willing workers.

Source:

Jenner: Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 64

Checking Inds. duty hours. ((Indians?))

Fine, cooler & dry.

Chines troops at Shum Chun. ((ie the village just across the border in China. It's a city today, now known as Shenzhen.))