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We can send small parcels to Shamshuipo for Christmas, and a ten word greeting.

I weigh 128 lbs ((rice fat)).

Trouble over money – Mum has applied for some, so has Mabel, but Mabel put that she wanted hers for shoes ((not food as expected)).

Death of Anthony Clarke aged 12 days.

James O' Toole in Shamshuipo sends Christmas cards to Alan Barwell, Joan Whitely and Peggy Harrison.

Sources:

Death: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271

and

http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_ftnref10

Cards:

Source:

O'Toole Shamshuipo Diary at

http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/James_OToole/html/dairy_1942.htm

Death of Anthony Clark. (buried in I.R.C. parcel box).

Fine & warmer.

Made table for Bonnie.

((G.))

Filled in more forms of personal particulars.