Dolo (don't meddle; don't try to improve other people; live your own life well first)
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In hospital
Brown / Short
Charcoal brought by internee from Bowen Rd. Hosp (vacant) (last orderly officer - Dr Duncan)
Free issue of 1/2lb Wongtong & soy sauce
"Housemaster" by Ian Hay (Prod. W.H.E. Colleridge)
Outdoor am. roll-call
My Weight 134lbs.
"a decision has been reached in European war" (bulletin) "Issue of the European war is no longer in doubt"
EASTER Martin / Dow
“Paracels shelled”
Heavy raids at 11.40 am. & 12.40 pm.
Controversy ((?)) between ) ((looks like a closed bracket or a curvy ‘I” , possibly with a small ‘z’ underneath it but doesn’t make sense - mybe shorthand?)) re. urine in hosp. wards
Raid 11.45 am. Thick black smoke over HK.
French Hosp., Sikh Temple hit (4 nuns, 100 children killed)
More heavy raids
Y 2,000 robbery from Canteen at night
My weight 132 lbs.
Koiso Cabinet resigned
adm. Baron Kantaro Suzuki (77) new Premier of Japan
Wedding – W. Keith MacKie & Jacqueline Anderson
“Housemaster” ((for details see 9th))
Wittenbach / Ponting
“Housemaster” (Blair, Kathleen Davis, Stanley Mason, Jack Armstrong ((not sure if this was the son or the father)), Colledge, Maureen Booker, Mrs Begdon, Yvonne Charter, John Valentine, John Stanton, Eric Kennard, Peter Potts, Raymond Lawrence, Noel Croucher, Colin Luscombe)
“Housemaster” ((for details see 9th))
Death – President E.D. Roosevelt (63)
Harry Truman (61) new President of U.S.A. former Senator of Missouri
Issue of 3 ½ packets cigarettes Y 5.25
Concert I.Q. mosque stopped by Formosans (Goldie, Pegg??, ???? ((unclear, could be “dancing” or “Laing”?)) )
Weight 134 lbs
Raid 1.15 pm.
Water now once in five days – washing in stream
Sandbach / Myhil
New air-raid warning notice – No food or water queues – Chairmen not allowed to go about with armbands. Instrs. for serving of food must come from Jap. authorities.