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Issue 5 pkt. + 4 cigarettes Y3.51

B.O.

Overcast, cold.

Workshops.

Damp & drizzly pm.

Lorry with Canteen [gear?] 5.30pm.

2 Pkts cigs issued.

Very poor meals today.

Permanent Black-out ordered.

'Blessing of the Throats' today after Mass.

Japs are asking for information re safe deposit boxes in HK & Shanghai Bank.

Connie Van Der Lely ((Annie's elder sister)) and I went to play bridge and monopoly at the Bartons - George Davitt (Police) and Dick Cloake there too; nice, and lots to eat.

Rumour that motor torpedo boats are around.

Russians 50 miles from Berlin.

We're not getting back-rice after all.