22 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Fine, dry, NE wind.

Tinsmiths shop & wood-choppping.

Water on.

Lorry with salt fish & cigs. 4 pkts issued.

Fed up day today.

US troops one third the way into Metz 37 mls from Strasburg & De Gaullists advance to the Rhine. Four of six passages thro’ Vosges to Rhine captured.

Postcard from Shanghai reports receipt of Aust. parcels.

(Chungking & New Delhi have radioed HK conditions re electric & water?)

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