Dr. Y-E says Mabel may get up soon and take a walk, and be examined after it. She said she heard something about her tonsils being yanked out.
Lovely fried fritter and baked potato, but everyone is ready to rebel because of no pasty or dumpling since Monday.
Went to Club (Prison Officers') in evening, so crowded – I had to sit behind the piano.
Things might be hard in Stanley but they're much worse in Kowloon's Shamshuipo POW Camp: today the number of deaths in an epidemic of diphtheria and related diseases peaks at 6. In contrast, there were 7 deaths in Stanley between August 18 and 13 December - and the youngest person to die was 45 years old, while most of those in Shamshuipo were of course of miitary age.
Sources:
Shamshuipo: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, October 11, 1942
Stanley: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186
(Sandbach) / Martin
3 years married today & again no celebrations.
Rain & wind.
Japs have lost in 10mths., 197 warships & 4 hundred odd merchant vessels. Russians cut off German supplies at Stalingrad?