Diary pages from this date

My heart is so tired, dragging feeling most of today.

Mabel much better.  Kind Mrs K took her a little wong tong.

Mr. ((Jimmy, PWD)) Bendall in hospital with septic foot, and Mr Skinner (Wally) with dysentery.

Olive and I went to choir practice on Maryknoll Sisters' verandah: Elsie Bidwell, Eileen and Kathleen Grant, 2 Bartons ((there were 11 Barton children in camp with their parents:-  Alec, Marie, Peggy, Leo, Terence, John, Audrey, Wendy, Jacqueline, Rosemary and Daniel: another son Bernard was in Shamshuipo Camp.)) The Sister was so nice.  Novena to Little Flower for Peace begins tomorrow.

Death of A. E. Bush, aged 48. Before being sent to Stanley he was held in room 127 of the Tung Fong Hotel.

Sourcs:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, page 271

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367486

Death of Mr. A.E. Bush, 48.

BBC 22-9-42. 5 dest. 3 cruisers 14 transports sunk in one attack on Solomons, & they lost 20,000 men in 48 hrs. troops have forged ahead N & S. Tobruk recaptured & our [?] Germans driven from Stalingrad. 1,500 tanks crossed Volga & are cutting up retreating Germans. Stalin in speech given on 2nd Anniversary of 1st bombing of Britain said “You (Germany) knew that after 1st raid they could not maintain air superiority over R.A.F. The R.A.F. have now superiority in every field & Germans know that Russia would soon pass them in production. Germany now knows that they have no hope against the Russian mincing machine & before long will know what it is like to have their territory invaded from the N as well as the W.

Kowloon Bus Co. afire.

Statue Square an execution ground.

Fine, dry & cool breeze.