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Death of John/Jack Moss from pulmonary thrombosis.
John Moss was born in Fulham on August 20, 1885 and became a boy entrant to the Royal Navy in 1895, serving until 1908. In 1912 he went to Hong Kong to join the Police Force, retiring in 1932. He worked later for the Admiralty as a caretaker with special qualifications (police experience). At some point he married Lily Beatrice (born in London on June 26, 1891). Before Stanley he was held at the Nam Ping Hotel.
Death - John Moss (58), Insp. HKP (Ret’d) Caretaker, Admiralty House
Lt. Hara in charge of Camp. Mr Nimurii interpreter
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Felt much brighter but still bunged up this am. Dr. prescribed some Med & Asp.
A Jap. Officer smashed some windows that had V on them.
Another roll-call – 8am the same as the previous weekly ones.
Meeting called.
Jap big wigs arrived this am.
Two days rice arr. Temp. 5% cut in rice ration.
No papers but we do not know if that is due to a hitch or if the new Adm. have disallowed the privilege.
With Steve pm.
Rumours about already re am.s meeting.
July has gone and now we are in August. I wish I could wake up tomorrow morning and find that August, September and October had sped by. It seems awful to wish away whole chunks of normally precious time, but time here is nothing more than a burden to be borne and the sooner it goes the better. Besides by the end of September or October I really expect things to begin to happen fast. It seems that by then the position of internees in this camp may indeed be critical, for the food situation is becoming acute.
Roll call nightly at 8 p.m. ((not sure this belongs belongs here, or to date above))
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Planes over early a.m. Two alerts. Some explosions.
Not a good night for sleep or weather. Showery W.wind.
Very poor tiffin, majority of Camp had bare rice only. Lorry arrived 3.30pm so the evening meal was a little better but late.
Another meeting of R of I, Block Chairmen & Jap this aft.
With Steve pm.
Mary dis. from Hosp.
No new, no papers.
More rice & oil arrived pm.
Sabang captured?
No smokes.
Some talk re Adm. taking over private gardens.
Good rations have come in. The ration people say that the quantity is the best we have had to date.
There are sweet potatoes, yams and pumpkins. Plans are announced to reorganise the vegetable gardens, and soon there'll be a proposal to expand the recently started poultry farm. It seems that the new adminstration does want to improve the internes' food supply - but the war situation is going to frustrate any such efforts.
Source:
George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 207-208
Alerts on 3rd and 4th August. From 9th until 13th August alerts nightly and some bombs heard. For rest of month alerts from time to time.
1 plane dropped bombs NTs 0015. A flight went over much later, about 4am.
Overcast, showery, wind W.
Canteen 110. 14.90=80cts. 17/6 – 1/-.[?]
Private gardens to be taken over for Communal purposes after private owners have reaped the benefit of their work. Any veg grown & used for commty will be in addition to rations. The size of chicken farm to be increased. ½ eggs will go to Hosp & the other ½ to Canteen for sale, proceeds to help buy chicken feed.
When we left Goodwin, he was on his way to the British Army Aid Group, the BAAG. Elizabeth Ride has kindly looked through her collection of BAAG material and sent copies of the documents that mention him.
OBJECTIVE: Fly nocturnal sea sweep mission to detect and sink Japanese ships in the South China Sea.
RESULTS: Due in part to bad weather, no enemy ships are detected during the sea sweep from Hainan to southern Formosa (Taiwan). The aircraft commander, Lt. Tilton, opts to bomb the Kowloon docks (the designated secondary target) on the return flight. Rain and darkness hamper accuracy of the bomb run, and some bombs are thought to fall in vicinity of the Tai Koo dockyard. Results of the bombing are unknown.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~1:00 a.m. on August 04
H.K. News allowed to send in
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Showery, overcast, muggy.
4 Pkts cigs issued. Welfare soap, Palmolive, Carbolic & ordinary washing soap. My luck was as usual in the Block draw, I got washing soap. The people who sit on their sterns all day got the Palmolive. The Dutch & Norwegians who have stacks of soap rec. Welfare soap too. Such is the cock-eyed world.
Club - Jenner, McLeod, Pearson, Eileen Grant, 3 Wilkinsons, Mace ((Not sure which McLeod he is referring to, but Barbara Anslow identifies the 3 Wilkinsons as "teenage sisters Joan, Maureen and Marjorie who sang as a trio,they had lovely voices."))
Road from gaol ((unclear, maybe "gates"?)) to cemetery closed
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Overcast, raining.
Ground rice.
Good ration of veg. arrived.
Jap paper poor for news today, reviews & composite results mostly, says a lot but tells us nothing. Yonai tells Japan that present air-raid shelters are inadequate. Chief of Jap Naval General Staff resigned.
With Steve pm more digging & planting turnips.
Italian General takes over CinC of forces in Italy.
Chris, after many boils all over her is now getting better.
The new regime is a washout and we are kept hanging around for all hours waiting on the arrival of the van with rations, they often arrive so late as to be impossible to cook for that evenings meal so that these sometimes have been gey thin and what's more these people are far from being helpful of course. They are the people who wield the big stick and can therefore call the tune, but their day is coming and it appears by all the good news we are getting to be not very far off in fact very close, however it can't come too soon let us back to freedom again.