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Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke is still being held in a Kempeitai cell in the Supreme Court:

Day and night he lay on the filthy concrete floor of his 6'/2x5 feet cell wearing nothing but shirt and trousers and crawled over by cockroaches from a nearby latrine - conditions particularly revolting to a hygiene loving medical man and at their worst in the damp heat of a Hong Kong summer. In this loathsome spot, his legs painfully swollen with beriberi, he passed his fiftieth birthday on 17 December 1943.

 

Source:

 Mervyn Horder, The Hard-boiled Saint: Selwyn-Clarke in Hong Kong

 (viewable at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2550548/pdf/bmj00606-0034…)

Fine.

Uneventful. A real period of doldrums this time.

Cig ends & lavatory paper for smokes.

Choir practice 5.30-7pm & the cup of tea with Steve.

Posted card to Marj.

Black-out.