Diary pages from this date

Went to hosp. early - Mabel in cock-eyed bed with wooden poles across the top, and her left leg extended and held taut with a dangling flat-iron.  That day Dr Myasaka visited the hospital, but though requests were made, nothing was done about x-ray then. ((Her spine was broken but we didn't know it then.)) She had fractured heel, rib probably cracked, and fractured left wrist.

I started to learn German from Mr R. Lederhofer.

Heath

B.O.

Fine, mild.

Cleaned rm, bthrm & kitchen.

4Pkts Cigs.

Jap Dr. around the Camp.

With Steve pm.

Black-out.

(5 more Es ex. in town. Gingles, Chester-Woods, Pascoe, Da Silva & Soares?)

((I guess he's noting a rumour that a further five people had been executed. Who is he referring to?

• Gingles: E F Gingle. He had been interned at Stanley Camp initially, but had later been allowed to live in the city.
• Chester-Woods: John Black's list shows a W R Chester-Woods interned in Stanley, but from Jones' comments it looks as though he had moved out of camp as well.
• Pascoe: Possibly Boris Pasco, who has been arrested by the Japanese at one point.
• Da Silva: Probably Marcus da Silva, who had smuggled money into Stanley.
• Soares: I'm not sure who this could be. Brian suggests "Soares might have been F. X. Soares, a banker who was certainly involved in some resistance activity but managed to escape to Macao before being caught." See http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/edward-gingle-at-war/))