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Red Cross delegate Rudolf Zindel visits Stanley, spending all day in the camp and interviewing 59 internees. He notes the beneficial effects of the extra foods supplied by his office - these include soya beans, peanuts, bran and lard. 

He reports a full discussion with Franklin Gimson on 'several current subjects concerning the internees'.

Source:

LAC, RG25 Volume 2929, Telegram from the International Committee of the Red Cross, received December 8, 1943

Fine, cold.

Wrote music, ground rice for M. Wrote post-card. With Steve pm.

No news.

Zindel arrived.

Coal issued in lieu of firewood.