News of Manila raids.
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The water supply is restored this morning. Franklin Gimson is grateful to the Camp authorities for working with the Governor's Office to bring this about. Nevertheless, a delighted Hasegawa tells him that the internees should proceed 'with the construction of tanks, wells, latrines etc. in order to prepare for any emergency'.
Source:
Franklin Gimson Diary, Weston Library, Oxford, p. 104 (recto)
Overcast, NE wind.
Store partition & wood.
Water on at 7am.
Lorry at 1pm with veg & papers.
Patton’s Army advance 10mls on 55ml front. Cross Moselle N of Metz. Kyushu bombed 9th. 80.B.292. Kweilin occupied by Japs 10th. Concern re Wangs condition 11th. Forli occupied 9th.
With Steve aft.
Night raid here.
Full up with rehearsals, meetings, etc.
Weather very cold.
Free issue of 1 oz. tobacco. Dust
Death of Wang Ching-wei announced in HK News
Overcast, NE wind, gusty.
Lorry with wood & canteen stuff 2pm.
No Euro or Burma news. Wang Ching Wei died 10th. Rumours persist re Germanys capitulation & Russia’s participation in war against Japs.
8 p.m. Evensong (Bl. 5 – Rose, 1L – Charter; 2L – Cunningham)
Overcast, NE wind, damp.
Water on.
Canteen back orders filled.
Lorry with wood & veg.
US 3rd Army occupy Theonville. More vessels sunk by Kamikaze Units around the Phillipines.
Saw Steve at noon & had nice cup of coffee.
Raid early am despite low cloud & rain. Fine, cloudy.
[L.a.?] Lorry with wood 2pm.
Coffee with Steve noon.
US 3rd Army making more headway. “Von Tripitz” sunk of [sic] N. coast Norway by 29 Lancaster bombers ((Operation Catechism, on 12 Nov 1944)).
Water on all day.
Finished partition wall.
Alarm 10pm but nothing happened.
Although matters have been improved by the experience of war and internment, the vicious racism of 'old Hong Kong' survives both in attitude and regulation.
Canteen quota increased from ¥120,000 to ¥180,000 (Tab ¥144.)
1 oz. suk yin ¥6
Fine, warmer. E. wind.
Bran in congee.
Bootmakers shop table.
1oz Suk yin issued Y6.
Took saw back to Steve, coffee & Y100.
Lorry with veg. No Euro or Burma news.
Jenner / Pearson
Fine, SW wind.
Bootmakers shop.
Took lamp-glass to Steve.
Lorry with wood.
Practically no news in paper. US 3rd Army make headway over the Moselle.
Finished toy rifle for J.S. ((Possibly Jack John Stevens, who'd have been 10. He was the son of Jones's friend 'Steve'.))
Y36 Canteen.
Many rumours re parcels, & Germany capitulating
Air-raid alarm 9.45pm.
Still in hospital and not doing as well as I had hoped. My waterworks have gone back on me with the passing of urine like red hot needles in other words there is a lot of albumen in my urine and so I have been put on to streptocide again every four hours night and day. This streptocide or sulphathiozole is the cure for many ills but leaving one very muzzy, palpitation, funny in the tummy and the head like as if trains were passing through' and shutters being pulled down.
Practice attack on H.Qs early am woke everyone up with the Japs yelling & bawling.
Fine, NE wind, woodchopping & trench digging.
Saw Steve noon with bit of firewood, coffee & cigs.
Water on, bathed & cleaned up aft.