Jap warning re - reduction in consumption of electricity
Bl. out dusk; lights out 10 pm.
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Dearest,
Here's my new paper - I hope the ink doesn't show through too badly.
General Alexander Patch declares Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, secure. A series of bitter combined-operations battles that began on August 7 1942 has ended in Allied victory.
Two Norwegians begin an escape that will lead to the biggest of the 1943 influxes into Stanley. Ragnar Brodersen describes the situation of the Norwegians in town and the lead-up to the escape of February 10 :
HK News Extra. More than 25,000 enemy troops annihilated in Solomons group as well as in New Guinea area. Jap damage - 16,743 troops killed or died from illness.139 planes ((unclear word )) on enemy objectives or have not yet returned.
Bl. out dusk; lights out 10 pm.
Cloudy & cold.
Saw Dr. more med. & on light diet.
Walk with Steve pm.
Black-out.
Rumour re raid this afternoon.
((G.))
Dorothy Lee is arrested in Queen's Rd. and taken to Central Police Station.
Canteen Y.8,000 business done.
Heard Dorothy Lee ((Eurasian, surname also Ahlmann)) and Ken Chaun ((dentist husband of Gertie, a sister of M.K.Lo)) disappeared. Later learned Dorothy Lee held Central Police Station. Ken's disappearance mystery. Seems answered call to Medical Department and four men pushed him into car.
4. STANLEY INTERNMENT CAMP: (Source: G.S.KENNEDY-SKIPTON).
Some months ago a man named RANDALL of the Hongkong Telephone Company, who was a strong swimmer, attempted to escape by swimming, but on coming ashore was caught, beaten up and sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment.
Kennedy-Skipton.
Hyde states and I quote:
We are still getting on all right and are thankful that the weather has greatly improved. We all have been suffering another of the irritations such a having blackouts at dusk and lights out at 10pm. The Japs are of course jittery and scared not so much for us as for themselves, however we trust that they'll get it in the neck one of these days.
Heath's show.
M. Dow / Myhill.
Cookhouse all day.
Fine.
((G.))
Blackout finished.
No cigs anywhere.
Death of Kenneth Sinclair Morrison, former employee of Reiss, Bradley & Co., at the age of 56.
Sarah Keir Polson, the widow of Volunteer J. A. Poulson, who'd died of wounds, marries Police Sergeant Osmund Frederick Bower.
Sources:
Death: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186
Marriage: Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 618