Took Conchita (Mejia) to Mass with me. ((Conchita one of large family who lived in the room below us. She had a disabled leg, and should have been wearing a brace, walking was very difficult for her, she was a sweet child – then 5 years old)).
Went to see Doreen (shorthand pupil), who has started writing a story of Stanley entitled 'I am hungry' which impresses me. Gave her a cumshaw shorthand lesson.
Peter Van Der Lely was beaten up yesterday as well.
Lieutenant T. D. Hunter, writes from the 'Prisoner of War Camp, Hong Kong to Mrs Peggy Hunter in Block 16, Room 34, Stanley (officialy called the 'Military Internment Camp'):
My Pegs,
I'm in a hurry now - so tired. And one has got to fight when one's too tired.
You 'take' and grow on one, I realise! I'm sorry I could not be brought to say there had to be this other way for us.
I'd like, somehow, to snatch you home with me!
My love as always to you both - Drummond
Source:
David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 198
An interview with Drummond Hunter can be heard here:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80018267
Note: The both presumably includes Peggy's mother - 'B. D. Scotcher, d.o.b. 1892, housewife'.'
This is an intriguing card, and, as David Tett comments, sounds like it might be a coded message. As the couple married at Bowen Road Hospital on Christmas Day 1941, they had hardly spent any time together.
Rose (public baptism of Clemow) / Brown
Overcast, drizzly, cooler. NE wind.
Made 2 finger rings from HK 10ct pieces.
King Leopold in our hands. Gamelin & Petain. Milan & Genoa captured by what Germans term “Bands of Hornets”. 500,000 Germans & Hitler defending Berlin. Stettinius President of San Francisco Conference. Goering resigned due to heart trouble, so the Nazis say.
∴ 9.30pm.
Lorry with veg. 7pm.