The weather this week has been awful, wind and rain and very cold, the usual way with the month of March, however it is most likely that warmer days will come soon again.
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Classical concert
Issue of 1 pkt. cigs.
3pm. Children’s show (Normans)
Had a blood count again - good. H.G. up to 72% and RBC 3,240,000. I'll be thinking of you all tomorrow! B.
(l. Cassidy) ((the first initial looks like a lower case L))
Rose / Ponting
Well Honey I was awake early - a little before 7 and I thought of you perhaps going to bed or sitting in front of a fire listening to a wireless - I hope you have a set. Then at 4.15 today - I was out on the hillside with Miss Spry - she put up the tea. Sandwiches, bully and some fresh lettuce she was able to scrounge! and some scones. We talked a lot about you all - she was wearing a nice brooch she said you had sent her.
Rain all day.
Mrs. V. Evans, aged 40, died today.
((She became cyanosed after an operation in the camp hospital and died.
She would probably have survived had our supply of oxygen cylinders had not run out then. She was such a cheery person, and a great entertainer on the Stanley stage. I wrote a poem in memory of her, what she might have said at her own funeral:
Death of Violet May Evans aged 40.
Before the war she'd been a filing clerk for Jardine's and lived in Gap Road.
Before being sent to Stanley, she'd been held at the Tai Koon Hotel.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367488
BANKERS.
Further to W.I.S. No.24, 23 Mar 43, 19, 61 and 99 confirm that GRAYBURN (the former source says STREATFIELD also) is at the Gendarmerie H.Q., Ventris Road, Happy Valley, whither he was taken on 17 Mar 43. No visitors are allowed and a boy, sent by LADY GRAYBURN with clothes for her husband, was not allowed to hand them to him personally.
Death of Paul Ewart F. Cressall.
Before the war he was Puisne Judge and was in charge of the enquiry into allegations of corruption in the building of air-raid shelters. He took the unpublished report with him into Stanley, but it disappeared after his death.
Death of His Honour Mr Justice P E F Cressall, M.C. (49)
Variety concert & 2 one act plays (Webb) (N Witchell comp)
8th April Faure and Omar out. Omar ill, spitting blood. Was taken out to verandah questioned and beaten. Yelled loudly.
((Not clear which date the following applies to:))
Grayburn and Streatfield taken away, but come back after silly questioning. One breakfast I am bunted on head with rifle butt for backing up for more chow. Sent me reeling back bleeding.