Dr Hargreaves tugged out some more of my ((infected)) eyelashes ((he'd had to do that a couple of months earlier)). Eyes ache and are sore.
Jap. papers admit air raid, they say they shot down 2 planes. No word of our parcels, all fear we may not get them now due to lack of transport etc.
Selwyn-Clarke didn't come in, upsetting all x-ray arrangements.
Mabel getting really fat in the face.
Internee Captain George Andrew Burn, aged 65, formerly a Master Mariner with Harry Wicking and Co. Merchants and Agents, dies at the French Hospital.
The Times (London) carries an optimistic account of conditions in the Hong Kong camps based on the report of International Red Cross delegates Rudolf Zindel and Edward Egle - 'the general state of health of prisoners in Hong Kong is good'.
Sources:
Burn: Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 619
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=n&GScid=2179361&GRid=15293606&CScntry=173&
Times: Oliver Lindsay and John Harris, The Battle for Hong Kong 1941-1945, 2005, 179
Note:
Nevertheless Burn is on the BAAG list In St. Paul's French Hospital in late 1942.
Much less air patrols by Japs today.
Conflicting reports of damage in town in Camp.
Bowls Single Finals played off. Oram beat Bradley. ((There was a Miss J A Oram in camp, but would they have had mixed-sex competition in Bowls? The other possibility is Mr J Orem.))
Sie miss mir wollen. ((Jill Fell: The nearest thing I can think of is "Sie muss mehr wollen" = "She must want more." I wonder if he was learning by ear. "Mehr" is almost the same pronunciation as "mir". "Mir" = "to me" doesn't make sense in this context.))
Grinding rice.
(In raids on HK we lost 2 & Japs lost 12 planes) We have advanced 100 mls in Lybia & have complete control of Indian Ocean. (Taikoo raided 2.30PM?)