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The weather has at last cleared up and it is hot and clear. A bunch of planes came over today, very high, but I think they were Japs as the Fort didn't fire at them. No news yet though we all think that repatriation is getting nearer - probably the Canadians will get away first - it doesn't matter if the boat brings us food. They have started a meatless day on top of our low rations - they just can't get the food, no one will sell for worthless paper Yen and ships take stuff to Macao instead where they are still paid in H.K. dollars.
Fine hot day.
No news.
Talk with Steve pm.
((G))
Russians have broken through German lines & our forces have landed at Taranto?
Average daily food allowed by Japs per head:
Death of former school teacher Marion Potter, aged 81, from lymph adenoma and myocardial degeneration.
Before internment she'd been held in room 203 of the New Asia Hotel.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, HKUP, 2008, Appendix 3
Supporting information:
Birth of Norval Willerton, a brother for George and Anne
Birth of Norval Leslie James Willerton. His father was a sergeant in the Hong Kong police.
Sir Vandeleur Grayburn is taken to the Stanley Prison 'Hospital' - a place where there's almost no medical treatment and the rations are even lower than in the cells to discourage would-be patients. The only advantage to being here is that you're allowed to lie down all day and don't have to spend most of your waking hours staring cross-legged at the wall.
Further repatriation news has been issued to the effect that in September the 'Teia Meru' will call here and take away any Americans and Canadians for exchange at Goa and it is expected that the ship will bring back Red Cross foodstuff to us and shall hope the women and children will be repatriated.
I do think and cannot see much hope of the men being repatriated so I am afraid we will have to resign ourselves to a longer stay of internment unless things in Europe and out here move quickly which as far as we can ascertain is evidently what is happening.
Birth of son to Mr. & Mrs. G. Willerton
Repatriation notice re. Canadians & Americans to leave end of Sept.
Br. women & children go in Nov.
Commissioner of Police John Pennefather-Evans and Inspector Louis Whant are released from Stanley Prison and returned to the Camp in the morning. They'd been arrested on July 11 and June 28 respectively on suspicion of being involved with either the secret radios or the ration truck message system.
The other arrestees are handed over from the Gendarmes to the Prisons Department and interogated by the public prosecutor (Kogi). For the next two months they'll be held in the ' B' Block of Stanley Prison awaiting trial.
"Goodness, How Sad" by Robert Morley (Pam Pritchard, Nora Witchell, Dr. Valentine, Eve Gray, Mrs. Tinson, T.V.N. Fortescue, J.A. Stericker, Mrs. Graham-Barrow (p), Norman (a), Mills (a) ) ((Not sure who the last two names refer to, though Norman is probably C J Norman, who took part in several plays at Stanley.))
Sir Vandeleur Grayburn is serving the second half of his three month sentence in Stanley Prison. He's been in poor health, suffering from fever and outbreaks of boils, but has received no treatment from the Japanese.
"Goodness, How Sad" by Robert Morley ((see 19th for details))