Men went to town for charcoal.
2 air raid alarms.
Rehearsal in P.O. Club in morning – hopeless!
Lecture on Burma Road by Owen Evans, most interesting, over 2,000 miles long; Evans stayed in a house where Gene Stratton Porter lived and wrote 'Freckles.'
Charcoal brought by internee from Bowen Rd. Hosp (vacant) (last orderly officer - Dr Duncan)
Bright & warmer pm.
Party to town for charcoal.
Finished Jap oven.
2 A/r alarms. US planes around & 1 slowly flew over this area, low & unmolested.
Saucepan for S.H. & made myself a trowel.
Paper had no war news whatever. German High Command changed Ronstadt out, Kesselring in & Jap boasting re re-taking what they have lost. Spain declines to carry on looking after Jap interests in Europe.