HOSPITAL Sunday. Dr. Alun Thomas / Martin
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Showery, E wind.
Chopped wood all am.
Brought Mrs Harrison from Hosp. Went the Joyces’ birthday party. very good eats, tongue & cakes some of which had chocolate icing thereon.
H.M.A.S.Australia damaged in Battle of Philllipines indicates that the Aussie Navy is in action with the US Fleet.
With Steve pm.
(Camp rumour. Men 18-50 to go into gaol. We are to be evacuated to Shanghai) (Both rumours exploded 31st).
Olive to hospital with dysentery.
Issue of 12 “R.L.” cigarettes 80 sen. ((Royal Leaf cigarettes, see 26th for details.))
Cloudy, muggy. NE wind.
Cookhouse construction.
Workers oil & sugar issued. ½ lb W.T. residue Y6 (7/-) & 12 cigs issued.
Paper tries its best to make Taiwan & Phillipine Battles o’erwhelming wins for them, but they cannot help but indicate the true trend of events. The Yanks may be having a rough time but they are winning. Euro news very scanty.
With Steve pm.
Mary gave me Y20.
Air-raid alarm 9.15pm. Planes around but nothing dropped, reconnaissance perhaps.
Issue of balance of Canadian R.C. parcels drawn for
Fine, cool. NE wind.
Cookhouse & firewood.
Bergen op Zoom captured by Canadians. All other fronts seem to be in favour of the enemy.
Drew lots for remainder of parcels. I drew 1oz of tea.
With Steve pm.
H.C. Service of commemoration for Faithful Departed (Brown, Rose, Sandbach (G), Forster (E) Short)
10% cut in rice
((Following text not dated:))
Upstairs admit moving out. Claim careful get Chinese tenant replace. Meanwhile ask me caretake and free phone, but then don't give me key. We nervous burglars.
Throughout November alerts almost daily. Planes heard but no bombs. Dropping mines?
Fine. E wind.
New kitchen taken over by A1-4.
Demolishing old kitchen & woodchopping.
With Steve pm.
Hertogenbosch captured 28th Nov ((should be 'Oct')). Japs have confusing details re their attacks on Leyte air-fields.
Fine, warmer, showery am, light variable breeze.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Oil, sugar & remainder of jam .9oz issued.
Hands healing but leg not so good.
North of Scheldt evacuated by Germany, 100 tons of bombs per min. dropped on Cologne in biggest raid against that city. Japs admit in their own paper that situation in Leyte is serious.
Cloudy & drizzly. E wind.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Lorry arrived with veg. 2pm no papers due to Jap holiday, wood arrived later.
Dug potatoes up (20lbs).
With Steve pm.
Flushing captured. Convoys in Pacific perhaps destined for China Coast.
(Camp to revert to Civil Administration).
Classical concert (Talbot, Alun Thomas (penillson ((sp?)) singing) Quartette, Octette) (Club)
We have just been to visit Maudie in the hospital. Vera, Phil, Y and I took her there yesterday evening. Dr Deane-Smith has advised her to go there for a few weeks in order to have a complete rest. She has had pains in her chest in the region of her heart and being a person who finds it hard to sit still in her own room, Deane-Smith and most of her friends advised her to go to hospital where she will have to rest. Poor Maudie, she simply hates being laid up, but she sees the wisdom of this course.
Cloudy, E wind.
Old kitchen & woodchopping.
Canadians landed Walcheren Isle 29th. Oct. Baccarat entered by French 29th. Japs report sinking of 1 battleship & 3 cruisers off Leyte 2nd.
Steve to Concert.
Since my last notes I have been through the mill and had a most trying time even to the extent of nearly having crossed the border into the unknown. However I am still in the land of the living and feeling very much better and on the road to recovery.
Seafarers’ Sunday. Brown (l. Fantham) / Sandbach
Dull, drizzly E wind, cooler.
Chopped wood & repaired toy wheelbarrow.
With Steve pm. Mary gave me Y40.
Much debate re Stilwell’s recall to Washington.
Lorry arrived 11.30am with fresh fish.
Issue of 1/2 oz, suk yin ¥3.00
Turnips & pak tsoi from communal garden.
((Barbara Anslow's memories of the communal garden:
Earlier in internment the prewar football pitch near Married Quarters and American Quarters became a vegetable garden, divided up into little plots as individual gardens for internees. We Redwoods had a tiny plot there. But there came a time when we were told that the entire pitch was to be used as a communal garden to supplement our poor rations.
Dull, drizzly, E wind.
Cookhouse construction & wood chopping.
Lorry with wood & fresh fish 4pm.
Rumania severed dip. relations with Japan as from 31st Oct.
With Steve pm
(Parcels in town?)