Death – Lt. Col. E. D. Mathews (68); formerly Commandant, H.K.S.R.A
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Fine, colder.
Nothing doing eventful.
Wrote music nearly all day.
Kiddies Concert.
Children’s concert (p. Eileen Grant & Azalea Reynolds)
Fine, cold wind.
Wrote music, Choir practice 5.30.
With Steve after.
Par.[?] wood.
Canteen lists 126.
Have run out of cigs, matches, food, treacle etc all at once so life is a bit lousy.
Today I saw Prof. Digby re my in growing toe-nail and tho. he has been attending to it for a while and endeavouring to care by Heath Robinson arrangement of thread, he has now decided to operate and I'm to enter Tweed Bay Hospital tomorrow evening and get it cut on Monday morning. The trouble with my toe has been due to shoes which are of course a serious problem in this camp.
Children’s concert (p. Eileen Grant & Azalea Reynolds)
Fine, cold.
Canteen buyer 126.
With Steve pm.
Sandbach (Dow sick) / Rose
Jenner / Pearson
Fine, cold.
Quiet, uneventful.
Hopelessness creeping in, thinking of how old M & I are getting with no hopes of meeting again for sometime to come. Marrying seems to have been a mistake.
With Steve pm.
Black-out.
Sat in Brown’s room till 9.30pm. ((There were several men named Brown in camp, so I'm not sure which one Jones means. Maybe Donny Brown, a Policeman?))
Daphne Esther Culver born, her parents were married just before internment.
Birth of Daphne Esther Culver to Phyllis Culver and William Frank Culver, a merchant who had come to Hong Kong in 1925 as a prison officer.
Arrest of banker Hugo Eric Foy. {See tomorrow's entry and discussion}.
B.O.
To Mr & Mrs WF Culver, a daughter
WE Foy taken to town ((I guess this means H E Foy, and refers to his arrest by the Japanese.))
Fine, cold.
Kids started school again.
Cigs arrived. 4Pkts.
Choir practice for “Elijah” at St Stephens.
With Steve after.
Getting more fed up as time goes on, thinking & thinking.
(Landing made at Dunkirk?)
Black-out. Full moon.
'Towkay' King tells Franklin Gimson of the arrest of HSBC banker Hugo Eric Foy. King does not know the charges.
It's probably no coincidence that the Commissioner of Police John Pennefather-Evans also comes to see Gimson today and gives him the names of those suspected of informing to the Japanee:
The list is a long one and naturally gives rise to conjecture as to the safety of anyone in camp.
Source:
Sudden alert 10 p.m. Lights out at mains for half hour. Bright moon but cloudy. No planes heard.
Fine, cold.
Started German lessons with Crutwell.
Choir practice at 5pm.
With Steve after.
Black-out.
Lights went off in Stanley area at 9.30 but came on again 9.50pm.
OBJECTIVE: Drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor
RESULTS: B-24s successfully drop mines into shipping channels of Victoria Harbor. Reconnaissance mission flown three days later photographs a 325-foot ship sinking in the channel where the mines are laid.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-24s from the 373rd Bomb Squadron (308th Heavy Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Seven anti-ship mines of unknown type
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None