Letter from P.O.Ws in Japan posted outside C.S.O.
B.O.
((Not clear where the following text belongs. Believe it is today)) Allotment of Y30,000 for distribution amongst internees in June.
No further information about repatriation or parcels ex Teia Maru. P????? ((Unclear)) possibility of purchases in Macau, where prices are cheaper.
Heavy storm early am. & showery all day.
Paper keeps up the usual note re our hopeless efforts at trying to win the war, it seems that the word “annihilate” and its derivatives was coined in order to describe the fate of the men opposed to the Axis.
There are internees who still think we have another eighteen months to exist in this Camp that the Germans will still be fighting well into next year. Time alone will tell of course but I sincerely hope they are wrong.
Result of Zindel’s visit negative re parcels & repatriation. Bran, beans & allowance to come. Black-out & Curfew orders more stringent.
With Steve pm.
4 Pkts. cigs issued.