Issue of oil, tea, sugar
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Cloudy, cool.
Received tea 1.06oz, sugar 1.75oz & peanut oil 6oz. (6 pkts cigs) (10 days)
No fresh rumours.
With Steve pm.
We expect more good or even better news re Russian progress & time seems to go slower therefor.
The (London) Daily Express reports on page 4 that £15,000 is being provided from 'British funds' though the International Red Cross for the relief of prisoners and internees in Hong Kong.
Welsh concert (St. David’s Soc.)
“Birds of a Feather” (Glyndwyr Davies, Alun Thomas, Alwyn Hughes, Dewy Richards – p. E.I.Wynne- Jones )
Welsh concert ((see 23rd for details))
Overcast, cool.
Tea & cakes with Steve aft.
Our choir went down very well again tonight. Carrying the harmonium back nearly put old Pudney out poor chap.
More rumours re evacuation 15th Apr.
Welsh concert ((see 23rd for details))
Misty & wet.
Ground rice for bread.
Damned harmonium caused me to miss 1st 2 items in concert tonight. Lugged it back again & changed the reeds.
Lousy day.
2Pkts cigs issued.
New Moon.
We are now on a new scale of rations and this has been giving us a headache in the working out the manner in which to deal with it. There are five different categories, 2 for children, no 3 for ordinary, no 4 for light workers and no 5 for heavy workers. In my capacity as quartermaster I come into category 4 and get extra rations which are very welcome. Also we are now getting beans, tea and curry in small quantities, never the less it is an extra which greatly helps especially the tea.
Dow / Myhill
Drown / Jenner
Wet & muggy.
Food carrying.
2nd Typhoid inoc. Slight fever & headache.
With Steve pm. Talked about Queensland & the roaming therein.
No news, lousy day on the whole.
Japs send in money to pay workers 15sen & 10sen (women) per day. or in price equivalents, 5 day work for a box of matches.
Roll call by Blocks 1 p.m.
Damp, muggy, improved pm.
Ground rice for bread.
Roll Call 2pm.
Saw Steve pm. He is about completely run-down sleepless nights & shingles. Hosp treatment for him.
Blast these little yellow rats & their enforced semi-starvation.
Jap Paper makes much of combined Jap & I.N.A. successes? in Burma. We cannot get a true perspective of the action & cannot tell its size or scope.
A hitch in negotiations is blamed for the delay in repatriation & not a shortage of shipping.
cigs, 2 pkts, 45 sen each
Issue oil, sugar
Heath
Rainy and foggy.....Downstairs father reports cannibal case. Fat woman Valley somewhere sliced. Choys say saw baby sliced.
Overcast & damp.
Food carrying.
4Pkts cigs & 2 matches Y2.43 issued.
Repaired leaky tap.
Steve from hosp aft.
Paper news excellent re Russian advance & Germany’s prep’s for flooding Holland.
Read letter from G. rec. by O.B.
Rep. ((repatriation)) holdup due to differences in lists of internees in Philippines.
10 days rations. 4oz oil. 1.06oz tea. 1.74 sugar. 1.5 curry pwdr.
Palm Sunday
Broson / Ream
Roll call daily (?) by Bl Rgn 8 qrt & 8 am & 9.30 pm
Drown / Jenner