Jap warning re - reduction in consumption of electricity
Bl. out dusk; lights out 10 pm.
Diary pages from this date
Dearest,
Here's my new paper - I hope the ink doesn't show through too badly.
I've been very busy since I last wrote. At last we are getting an allowance and some 40,000 Yen came in. The I.Q. are about one third of the Camp so I was responsible for paying out Y10,835. I had an awful scare on Saturday night and went to bed rather unhappy as I thought I was 10 or perhaps 15 Yen out and as 1 Yen = H$4 - it was no mean sum, in fact the whole of my allowance. However on Sunday I found the discrepancy and all was well. I'll tell you the whole story some day.
I'm on a big Discussion Group these days and on two Sub-Committees of it which is very interesting but take up a good deal of one's time. News from Russia is still very good but elsewhere things seem to have slowed up a bit and we are so weary of waiting.
I have been persuaded to stand for election to the Community Council - I'll tell you my reasons some day. It will be a little feather in my cap if I do get in but I'm not worrying. It's another thing to interest one - that's all.
No more letters yet - it is so mean of them to sit on them all this time - what good does it do them? - no parcels either. Cigs are very scarce again too so I am a little cross! But on the whole we keep fairly cheery and bright. The weather is lovely - pretty cold but a lovely bright sun. All my love always B.
General Alexander Patch declares Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, secure. A series of bitter combined-operations battles that began on August 7 1942 has ended in Allied victory.
The Battle of Midway (June 1942)put paid to Japanese hopes of a quick military victort that would force the Americans to accept a negotiated peace, but the task of actually dislodging the Japanese from the territory they'd occupied during their 'six months of victories' was a mammoth one. The bitter fighting at Guadalcanal, which culminated in a major naval battle in November 1942, marked the first stage in the Allied offensive.