1 egg & a jam fritter helped out the ration today.
Questionaire (sic) from Jap H.Q.s
R. E. Jones Wartime diary: View pages
Allies on their way to Singapore again?
Played crib.
Hill’s campitis showed up re porridge this am.
Dance in St Stephen’s College.
70,000 Americans landed in Filipines & Russians now on German soil?
Sultry day. Full day in Cookhouse. Some thunder & rain PM.
Penang recaptured. 1000 planes over Berlin. Japs who landed in Aus. 20,000 mopped up & another 40,000 sunk at sea?
News good in general & more optimism evident.
Rained.
Started shorthand.
Hill & I got over our campitis.
Shaved whiskers off.
Rotten day. Japs taking all furniture from the Colony. Musso skipped?
Finer day. Optimism OK.
News very heartening still. Progress in Malaya. Germans repulsed in Turkey. Japan & Germany being bombed.
News good if true. Reinforcements landed in Philipines.
Quiet day. No fresh news.
½ flour ½ rice day. 1st attempt at making small loaves. Not much of a success, no yeast or baking powder.
No news.
Japs having trouble in town? Big centres in Japan in flames, aero factory etc? Russians in Warsaw?
Cookhouse.
Americans not very polite when I enquired about my fridge.
Japs bombed Colombo.
No bread.
Japs having plenty trouble in Kowloon?
Cold.
Guerillas making trouble for Japs in HK?
Russian progress very good.
Bombing of Japan all tripe?
XXX ((=some shorthand, I think)) x 5 escapees
Russians in Danzig & Warsaw.
Hainan (?) captured by Allied troops.
Churchill says Allied attention willl be directed to the East in one month.
Guards increased around the Camp.
In Cookhouse all day.
No news.
Heavy explosion heard about 3.45AM.
Euro. news good. Far Eastern not so good?
Plans already made to resume duty.
Germans fighting rearguard action on their own soil. Malayan battles progressing in our favour?
Duck eggs.
Russians getting on OK but not around Warsaw or Danzig. British captured Bengazi & are rushing troops etc to Eastern Med. to make new front.
Last of P.O. people arrived.