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Clear, starry night, warm, moon up to 1am. Hot, no breeze.
Cut grass.
Jaw-bone.
No lorry. no news. Camp news has it that the Allies are approaching Cologne via Aachen.
Tired & fed up all day. Hungry & no smokes.
With Steve pm.
1st crop of s.p. ((probably "sweet potatoes")) for Camp from "Pumpkin" Hill
One cigarette & one box of matches - 23 sen
Med ex - wt 133lb, bp 110
Today the heavy workers had their monthly medical examination. I was very pleased to find I had put on 2 lbs and my blood pressure too had gone up. I now weigh 134 lbs and my bp is 122 over 70. So I am back to my weight of 6 months ago. Harold, poor chap, has lost 6 lbs this month and is down to 133 lbs. He has lost 14 lb in the last three months which isn’t so good. Yvonne too thinks she has gained a little in weight and we put down our gains to the egg yolk and bean flour and sugar that we have been concentrating on in our canteen purchases.
Fine, hot, E wind.
All war news good. Jap Diet explains plenty in different speeches & emphasise the seriousness of the situation.
Fish came in 2pm but so rotten most of it had to be buried immediately.
Cut grass.
1 ½ cigs 7 a box matches issued.
With Steve pm.
Hurry up you US blokes.
Canadian parcels etc. arrived in camp.
All night long and in early hours of morning we heard lorries groaning backwards and forward from the quay. When they were distributed, we got 4 parcels each!
Death of Walter Pryde from hypertension, heart failure and beri-beri at the age of 57.
Source:
Philip Cracknell at http://battleforhongkong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/stanley-military-cemete…-
Hot. Light breeze.
Chopped wood.
With Steve grinding rice am.
Made chatty & chopped wood for Rita.
With Steve pm. He gave me some Suk Yin.
Becason captured. Bulgaria declared war on Germany. Fighting in Maastricht area. Siegfried Line outer defences penetrated Germans evacuate Greece & Egean [sic] Sea & Yugo Slavia.
"Jap authorities determined to stop any trading except between internees within the Camps"
Yesterday afternoon, Walter Pryde, senior inspector of works in the Building Ordinance Office of the PWD died of beri-beri heart. His collapse was very sudden at the end. The day before he had walked to the hospital to undergo treatment and rest and the following day he died. The state of his health has been deteriorating steadily since he was interned, the cause being nothing more than undernourishment or starvation; he had lost an enormous amount of weight.
Hot. Light breeze.
Chopped wood. Ground rice with Steve am.
Vehicular Ferry arrived with rice, beans, sugar, salt, tea & PARCELS. With gang at Godown unloading rice.
No Euro news in paper. Churchill & Roosevelt in conference in Quebec, re Pacific?
The Canadian Red Cross parcels - two to each internee - are distributed.
These are excellent parcels, and there are enough of them to give out another one on the 21. ((For the contents see R. E. Jones's entry for today.))
In town in it's the first anniversary of the setting up of Rosary Hill Red Cross Home for uninterned and largely destitute British dependents. Delegate Rudolf Zindel marks the occasion with an off-the-cuff speech at dinner:
2 Canadian Red Cross Society parcels distributed (937 parcels - 8 parcels in each)
Finished 2am. Too dirty to turn in so lay down on the roof till 6.30am bath time. Turned to again down on the pier & finished off the rice transport job at 2pm. Burnt to the devil & sore as hell where the rice sacks have rubbed my back & arms when carrying.
2 parcels each issued & each one contained:
OBJECTIVE: Dive-bomb targets in town of Samshui near Canton and run fighter sweep over White Cloud airbase
RESULTS: The American pilots encounter a formation of Japanese fighters, which forces the American pilots to abort the mission and engage in an extended dogfight.
TIME OVER TARGET: Morning
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eleven P-51s from the 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
OBJECTIVE: Dive-bomb targets in town of Samshui near Canton and run fighter sweep over White Cloud airbase.
RESULTS: The P-40s and P-51s hit Samshui with high-explosive and incendiary bombs, causing numerous fires. After completing their bomb run, the P-51 pilots are ambushed by Japanese fighter pilots and a short dogfight ensues.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~4:00 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Ten P-51s and four P-40s from the 76th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
Seminarian Bernard Tohill of the St. Louis Industrial School begins studies in Moral and Dogmatic Theology at the Jesuit Wah Yan College in Robinson Rd. He needs to take these courses if he is to become a priest, and the war's already delayed them by a year.
Outdoor a.m. roll call