201 admissions to Tweed Bay Hospital ((This may well be a summary of the total number of admissions to the Hospital during the month.))
Diary pages from this date
((Following text not dated:))
Rumour British evacuation for women and only of fully European descent. Daisy Jex has asked permission leave. All interested how she gets on. Micky Williams dead heart failure.
Gloria Yee arrested ((wife of O.Kees in Volunteers)). Dhun Ruttonjee and wife in. Arthur Woo scared. Warned against having anything to do with Europeans or Eurasians. Lusitano still locked. Women only there now. 200 Portuguese detained. Rose Souza got Maude out to hospital on medical certificate. Grace Ablong went to Lusitano to return dish. Mistook warning wave for invite go in – detained.
Carried out long conceived plan see Kotewall for help. Offered me Y100 monthly to help him with biography. Accepted.
Alerts on several days during month, but nothing happened.
Fine & warmer. Aired bedding.
Nothing happened noteworthy.
Hattori in ?
Information re pris’s very bad but very good re repatriation?
Drew map for use in “positioning” future fires.
((R E Jones' daughter Rae has this drawing among her father's papers:
After reading the diary she realised that it was the "positioning" map described in today's diary entry. The strip along the bottom shows the skyline as seen looking north from Stanley Camp, so if you saw smoke or the glow of fire above the hills, you could use this drawing to estimate what the American bombers had attacked that day.))