Pasties at the hospilal, delicious pastry.
Mabel looking so much better.
Had Welfare issue of lav. Paper.
Lovely Elizabeth in evening, after Rosary servce in the open.
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I feel a bit better but the blood count is not so good Haemoglobin is up to 58% but the count is down to 2,180,000. Drugs that might be helpful are unobtainable - or in some cases beyond my purse! But I'm feeling better so I don't worry. A ship came in from Lourenco Marques 3 days ago said to have 1000 tons of parcels for prisoners. I wonder if Edith would ever think of sending anything - or perhaps she wouldn't hear about it. We've had a bit of a typhoon blow since so unloading has no doubt been delayed. A letter would be better than anything - if it told me where you are. AMLAML. B.
Issue of 5 Royal Leaf $3.
2 Jap convoys messed up off Formosa. Japs lost 2 Battleshps 4 cruisers & 11 transports & destroyers in an attack on the Aleutians. Burma bombed. 8,000 Japs mopped up in New Guinea.
C.S. & C of P. informed re my desire to rejoin R.N. if I am repatriated.
Cig. issue (5).
((Jones was a submariner in the Royal Navy before working in the Hong Kong Prisons. "C.S. & C of P" are probably the Colonial Secretary, Gimson, and the Commissioner of Prisons, Willcocks))