Another US Independence Day.
Cloudy, hot, showery. S wind.
Window in Lep.
Awfully fed up am.
(Rumours. Enough British troops in Luzon to re-take Singapore & HK. Chinese warned to be ready for an attack on Colony. Chungking & Red Armies converging on Ning Po)
Dug potatoes pm 7lbs Gs ∴
Doreen for shorthand.
Worked in afternoon, typed much of Catholic Youth Magazine. Father Hessler sick.
Went to see Mr Burnett with my 'exercise' - 400 words about camp life. He said it wasn't bad.., but to me it sounded like a school composition compared to his which he read to me as a sample. He has offered to help me with narration, and told me to report on the food queue as if writing a letter, and he will criticise it.
Clifton went into hospital.