HK News - "Street fighting in Manila City"
Diary pages from this date
Overcast, cold.
Workshops.
Manila entered 4th. Kobe bombed 4th. Russians 10 mls SE Stettin 4th.
A & B Groups Canteen.
2 boxes matches issued Y1-95 each.
Question now is, “What will arrive first”, food or release.
Lorry arrived empty.
Had egg in evening, fried a pancake.
Shorthand with Ivy Batley and Mrs. Goddard.
2 cards from Auntie Lil, one May 1944.
Very cold.
Leilah came to rehearse in passage at 4pm and is good. ((Leilah Woods, teenager. Her mother was Japanese/German, her father English. He was working in Shanghai when the Japs attacked, and died there during the war (probably killed by Japs.) In Stanley with Leilah were her mother, her sister Edith and Edith's husband Arthur, and their children Mavis and Richard Hamson. Leilah, now widowed, lives in Canada and we often chat on the phone.))