Mabel home just for evening ((from hospital)). We shared an apple pudding - delicious but not enough of it.
Peggy Barton and I have been delegated to go to find out who can come to the Study Club ((Church)) and choir. Mrs Drown came in ((our room)) to play bridge later. Mabel and I went back to hospital under one mackintosh, dark, misty, rainy and blowy.
The men sleeping in Stanley Prison hold an impromptu concert. They enter the prison singing, led by an improvised band: a few men have real instruments (an accordion and a mouth organ), others use combs, while Sergeant Kinlock has turned his bedding into a drum.
A furious 'Japanese executioner' (probably Hirano) attacks the accordion player (Geoffrey Watson), who manages to avoid being harmed by his blows. The Japanese examine the accordion, perhaps believing it to be a bomb.
Source:
George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 119
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Rice ration terrible. We pick out stones and turds.
Leaving permits suddenly issued to people who previously refused. Easier if not returning. Must be careful to state this.
Cholera inoculation campaign in full swing.
Black-outs nightly. Much shouting lights out. Rumoured American aviator came down at Kwai Chung. Reported thirty planes approached Taipo but were driven off.
Rain & cold wind.
Our good news is all true.
((G.))