No news.
Received shorts, shirts, soap etc from Welfare Committee.
Sugar $2.50 per lb. Cigs much cheaper.
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Walk around camp.
Fine day.
No news.
Jap Navy Day.
New Kitchen Sub.Comm. took office & had to deal with the problem of accusations made by members of the public against the Kitchen staff. Cohen & Franks had a little trouble over it.
Good news came in today. American convoy arrived at Bombay. Jap A/C carrier sunk off Port Moresby. Saar area bombed heavily. Russians have advanced into Rumania & to Poland after a 3 day bombardment from Germans. We lost 1 Cruiser & 4 Transport off Cape Finisterre? We have landed a force at Brest at the cost of 5,000 men?
Hot.
Dance & Cabaret at St Stephens.
Finished in the Cookhouse.
Feet swollen again.
Canton captured?
Hot, sticky & showery.
Sat on Cemetery wall.
Canton surrounded?
Rommell ((sic)) surrendered?
6 mths pay due?
$2250
Japan bombed. China Coast points held by Japs bombed. Bocca Tigris Fort disabled. Rioting in I & G. Rommell took advantage of 24hrs truce to launch an offensive? Another convoy of troops arrived in India.
Cargo rice.
Tiger shot in the village, female & 2 cubs still at large. Indian killed & Jap mauled.
((Don Ady: I personally saw the tiger, dead))
Hot, breeze from S.W.
No news.
Cemetery wall.
Fine day.
Prison team won bowls 27-14.
Russians OK. Advance made from Brest? Formosa, China ports & Jap towns bombed.
Saw M.O. re feet. Vit. B1. ((Probably: "Saw Medical Officer regarding feet. Given vitamin B1"))
3 heavy bombers flew across S, E to W.
Commenced German lessons with Scott A/S.P. ((Believed to be Walter Scott - see comments below))
News good, Germany heavily bombed, Japs ships sunk in China Sea. Russians OK but losing many men.
German lesson.
General repeat of all news.
Lesson in Cemetery.
Lovely day.
2,000 planes raid Germany nightly. French advised to overthrow Vichy Govt. Russians lost about 100,000 men & Germans 200,000. Canton outskirts penetrated and City liable to fall in 24hrs. Repatriation negotiations going on. Unrest in Germany. 200 shot outside Reichstag. Burma, on side of Jap, bombed by Allies. Gulf of Papau [?] 1 Jap dest. sunk & 1 damaged.
Relatives of Internees informed by BBC.
Wind backed to W. Heavy showers.
No news – much talk re repatriation.
And exactly a half year since war began here.
Rained all day.
Japs lost several vessels around Guam, Midway & Wake Islands.
German lesson.
Warm.
No news.
Heard Midway Battle a great success for us.
Lovely day.
American sailing delayed of a week, no reason given.
Fixed up guitar.
Usual walk p.m.
News arrived in Camp but I’ll get it tomorrow.
Getting very fed up with this combined Bakery & Kindergarten. ((What does that mean?))
Rioting going on in Germany & Italy. Rommell fled to desert.
Farewell Concert given to Americans on Club verandah. The bowling green had a record crowd on it.