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27 Mar 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Roll call by Blocks 1 p.m. 

27 Mar 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Damp, muggy, improved pm.

Ground rice for bread.

Roll Call 2pm.

Saw Steve pm. He is about completely run-down sleepless nights & shingles. Hosp treatment for him.

Blast these little yellow rats & their enforced semi-starvation.

Jap Paper makes much of combined Jap & I.N.A. successes? in Burma. We cannot get a true perspective of the action & cannot tell its size or scope.

A hitch in negotiations is blamed for the delay in repatriation & not a shortage of shipping.