19 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Fine, warm, NE wind.

Cookhouse construction & woodchopping.

Jap plane activity all day.

Lorry arrived with veg 3.45pm.

Their paper cracks up their Taiwan “victory”. Canton & Swatow raided 17th. Manila & Taiwan heavily raided, both at same time from same task force 17th. 6 planes supposed to have been brought down from our raiders on Monday. Aberdeen 200 junks sunk & damaged. HK 7000 killed.

Formosan guard reckon on leaving HK next month. Japs shipping arms & ammo back to Japan.

With Steve pm.

Mary lent me Y20 & gave me 7 cigs.

New Moon.

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