Overcast, drizzly.
1Pkt.Cigs issued.
No lorry.
Holiday for Emp. of Jap. birthday.
With Steve pm.
M to concert.
(Food 10mins)
Allied forces landed in Sumatra & Malaya?
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OBJECTIVE: Fighter sweep and reconnaissance mission over Canton
RESULTS: No contact with enemy aircraft and poor visibility prevents observation of the Canton airfields
TIME OVER TARGET: ~Noon
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Colonel Brightweiser; Major Barry Melloan; Lt. Thomas Aston; Lt. Duffy; 1st Lt. Kenneth Latourelle; Lt. Thomas P. Bennett; Lt. Robert Gibeault; Lt. Balyard
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
No births during April.
Mabel had a truss fitted (for back injury) but it wouldn't work, so in hospital again, to be put in a plaster jacket. ((This plaster wouldn't set though, so she came home on 27th and the workshop started to make her a steel jacket out of old ceiling fan blades. She wore this very patiently for about 6 months and it helped)).
Still getting no meat and no bread - and not very much of anything.
Mostly fine & humid, some showers.
Ground rice for bread.
Machine conked out again.
With Steve pm.
No news.
Newman & Ah Lo arrested by drunken Ind. guard & taken to village. Arrested released, guard detained. ((Possibly C M Newman. Not sure who "Ah Lo" refers to.))
Not such a brilliant month.
Hungry mostly, no mental & little physical energy.
((Following text not dated:))
Heavy rain.
Weight 115 lbs.....
Omar now working chief watchman at Taikoktsui. Y250 plus 30 catties rice. Pretty good.....
More stones in rice. Granite, same colour and weight as rice so can't pick out. Broke my tooth badly.
Overcast, humid, showery. Heavy thunder squall 7.45pm.
40 days rations issued from go-downs.
No news.
New Guinea news good. US troops been landing since 22nd Apr. Hollandia & Ritape. [?]
With Steve pm.
Beach opened this afternoon.
Peanut oil seems to be doing me good.
A couple who were probably the first internees to marry have their second child: Robert McGregor Mitchell.
Mrs. Rachel Grace Rose dies at the age of 44.
Mrs. Rose was a Chinese woman married to a Henley Hemdon Rose, formerly of the Public Works Department and then a POW in Shamshuipo.
She left a daughter Dawn (12) and son Gerald (8) to be cared for by Mrs. H. Aitken.
Birth of Robert McGregor Mitchell to Amy Maltida May Eliza Mitchell and A. McGregor Mitchell, a prison officer.
Robert's sister Rosemary was also born in Stanley.
Death – Mrs. Rachel G. Rose (33) wife of H.H. Rose
Birth – To Mr. & Mrs. A. McG. Mitchell, a son.
Med. exam, wt. 131; Blood press. 105
Issue oil, sugar, tea
Robert Mitchell born. Parents married at start of camp, daughter Rosemary born Oct. 1942.
Mrs R. G. Rose (Chinese) died, leaving British husband in Kowloon camp, and Dawn 12 and Gerald 8 in Stanley. Both children cared for by Mrs H Aitken, mother of Eddie, until the end of internment.
Heavy rain nearly all day. Bed dripped on last night.
Ground rice for bread after much useless messing about with the Spong grinder.
German lesson.
With Steve pm.
Parcels arrived?
Clifton in hospital with colic.
Finer day. Dried out bedding.
Tea, sugar & oil issued.
With Steve pm.
2nd Front?
Norwegian money & parcels stopped.
Allies landed on Sylt? ((Sylt is the northernmost of the German islands in the North Sea. I don't see any mention of any allied landing there before the Germans surrendered in 1945.))
Evening meal at 7 pm (new boilers tried out in galley)
B.O.
Fine, hot, humid.
Ground rice for bread.
Roll-call.
Some Canteen gear arrived at last.
More rumours re 2nd Front.
Poor rations, hungry as hell.
Walk with Steve pm.
Black-out.
Fine day.
Many rumours re repat., parcels, 2nd Front going around, all untrue it seems.
Sold flask for Y40. 4 cigs & 2 matches issued Y1.98.
With Steve pm.
Sat on roof pm. much thought of Frau, food & future as usual.
Black-out.
Criticism is never far away from Franklin Gimson - 'the Representative of the Internees' - who is almost always being blamed by someone for something. Today he notes in his diary a rather mysterious source of discontent: