Showery, SE wind.
Cookhouse & woodchopping.
Lorry arrived 12.30pm with veg.
Kyushu raided 25th. Japs claim 69 warcraft sunk & damaged in Taiwan & Phillipine Battles. Hungary apparently in state of flux, house divided. Ford making aerial bombs.
With Steve pm.
Lovely evening & cloudless night.
Lovely day, NE wind.
Canteen No.136.
Cookhouse & firewood.
Lorry arrived with wood.
With Steve pm.
Denton case aquires [sic] many rumours.
Clouded over pm.
Showery, E wind.
Chopped wood all am.
Brought Mrs Harrison from Hosp. Went the Joyces’ birthday party. very good eats, tongue & cakes some of which had chocolate icing thereon.
H.M.A.S.Australia damaged in Battle of Philllipines indicates that the Aussie Navy is in action with the US Fleet.
With Steve pm.
(Camp rumour. Men 18-50 to go into gaol. We are to be evacuated to Shanghai) (Both rumours exploded 31st).
Cloudy, muggy. NE wind.
Cookhouse construction.
Workers oil & sugar issued. ½ lb W.T. residue Y6 (7/-) & 12 cigs issued.
Paper tries its best to make Taiwan & Phillipine Battles o’erwhelming wins for them, but they cannot help but indicate the true trend of events. The Yanks may be having a rough time but they are winning. Euro news very scanty.
With Steve pm.
Mary gave me Y20.
Air-raid alarm 9.15pm. Planes around but nothing dropped, reconnaissance perhaps.
Fine, cool. NE wind.
Cookhouse & firewood.
Bergen op Zoom captured by Canadians. All other fronts seem to be in favour of the enemy.
Drew lots for remainder of parcels. I drew 1oz of tea.
With Steve pm.
Fine. E wind.
New kitchen taken over by A1-4.
Demolishing old kitchen & woodchopping.
With Steve pm.
Hertogenbosch captured 28th Nov ((should be 'Oct')). Japs have confusing details re their attacks on Leyte air-fields.
Fine, warmer, showery am, light variable breeze.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Oil, sugar & remainder of jam .9oz issued.
Hands healing but leg not so good.
North of Scheldt evacuated by Germany, 100 tons of bombs per min. dropped on Cologne in biggest raid against that city. Japs admit in their own paper that situation in Leyte is serious.
Cloudy & drizzly. E wind.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Lorry arrived with veg. 2pm no papers due to Jap holiday, wood arrived later.
Dug potatoes up (20lbs).
With Steve pm.
Flushing captured. Convoys in Pacific perhaps destined for China Coast.
(Camp to revert to Civil Administration).
Cloudy, E wind.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Canadians landed Walcheren Isle 29th. Oct. Baccarat entered by French 29th. Japs report sinking of 1 battleship & 3 cruisers off Leyte 2nd.
Steve to Concert.
Dull, drizzly E wind, cooler.
Chopped wood & repaired toy wheelbarrow.
With Steve pm. Mary gave me Y40.
Much debate re Stilwell’s recall to Washington.
Lorry arrived 11.30am with fresh fish.
Dull, drizzly, E wind.
Cookhouse construction & wood chopping.
Lorry with wood & fresh fish 4pm.
Rumania severed dip. relations with Japan as from 31st Oct.
With Steve pm
(Parcels in town?)
Showery, warmer. E wind.
Cookhouse & woodchopping.
The proposed suspension of water supply causing some trouble.
Singapore bombed 5th. Soviets nearing Budapest.
With Steve pm.
Protest re proposed site of Dutch latrine.
Sat with the Minnetts for a while tonight.
Emergency alarm 9.15pm. Single plane raid over Taipo way.
Fine, cloudy, E wind.
Wells being sunk & latrines dug.
Ground rice for Mary am.
Col Takanada arrived re water question.
Digging our latrine trench & wood chopping.
With Steve pm. They gave me 6 cigs.
Formosa bombed 10 times since 2nd.
Americans in Camp rec. parcels through Zindel.
Soap issued from Welfare, seems to be good stuff too.
Fine dry day.
Washed my sheets, dressing gown & overall & filled up as many old bottles I could find with water.
Finished latrine trench.
Much ado re water suspension.
Burma offensive opened. Mountbatten assumes some other post not yet clearly defined. Production of planes in U.S. 8,000 per month.
6pm roll call instituted so seeing Steve nightly is finished.
Fine, dry. S.W.Wind.
Store partition walls & wood chopping.
Water situation so far well in hand. Water supply suspended 9am.
Autumn Off. started in France (Gen. Patton) Stalin shows where he thinks Japan stands in his estimation. The Japs have no doubt acquired a headache through his speech. Roosevelt returned for 4th term by overwhelming majority against Dewey.
Went to Mary’s Birthday party. Very nice.
V.2s “Flying Telegraph Poles” being use [sic] against London. Editorial again quotes the saying, “He who laughs last laughs the longest” in a derisive article on the China based US Airforce.
Colder. SW wind, cloudy pm.
Water & wood.
North’s notes contain more details of Stalin’s speech. Germany & Japan are certainly due for their deserts after the war is cleared up.
No lorry.
District Chairmen etc received overcoats from Col Takanada.
Overcast, NE wind.
Store partition & wood.
Water on at 7am.
Lorry at 1pm with veg & papers.
Patton’s Army advance 10mls on 55ml front. Cross Moselle N of Metz. Kyushu bombed 9th. 80.B.292. Kweilin occupied by Japs 10th. Concern re Wangs condition 11th. Forli occupied 9th.
With Steve aft.
Overcast, NE wind, gusty.
Lorry with wood & canteen stuff 2pm.
No Euro or Burma news. Wang Ching Wei died 10th. Rumours persist re Germanys capitulation & Russia’s participation in war against Japs.
Overcast, NE wind, damp.
Water on.
Canteen back orders filled.
Lorry with wood & veg.
US 3rd Army occupy Theonville. More vessels sunk by Kamikaze Units around the Phillipines.
Saw Steve at noon & had nice cup of coffee.