Outdoor a.m. roll-call
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Cloudy, fine.
Outside roll-call 8am.
Brackets for blood-transfusion tubes.
Hitler’s body cannot be found. Great jubilation at home & in US on 8th. All power to be directed against Japs now. Dutch assist in Tarakan. Jap bombed heavily.
Oil, tea, sugar & salt issued. 25% cut in oil.
∴C. ((Not sure if this is the same person as "G", or someone else.))
No rations have come in; tonight we had a dry garden hash - very nice. ((Can't remember what garden hash was!))
Doreen didn't come for lesson. Worked in afternoon.
Rumour that Hankow has fallen, Rangoon too, and a landing in Canton delta.
O.T. (teeth).
Fine, warm, water on.
Odd jobs.
Food cover Flower.
Altered routine.
Lorry with veg. 6pm.
Japs again aver determination to go on. Kyushu heavily bombed 10th. Churchill says conscription to go on.
Rumour that repatriation is in the air again - in Chinese newspapers - now that the menace of German action is no longer present, since that apparently was the fly in the ointment before - the Germans wouldn't guarantee us a safe passage.
Mass offered in thanksgiving for Peace in Europe.
Rose (thanksgiving for peace in West) / Alton
(p.m. service in block 2)
Fine, cloudy, warm.
Day off.
250,000 US troops to arrive in Far East every month. All troops to have 30 days leave first. Surrendered German fleet & 100 s/ms to be used out here too. France to take part. Dunkirk & Crete held out till 10th inst.
Lorry with nil 6pm.
Sun bathed on roof.
∴G.
Yesterday evening the Protestants had thanksgiving service in the open, and Japs made a fuss and said permission must be asked for these things, but allowed it.
Rumour of repatriation, And Okinawa gone to us.
Communal garden produce to be included in rations. Sale of articles in HK through I.R.C. stopped “for time being.”
Overcast, dry & warm.
Odd jobs.
Photos to G.
Lorry with nil 7pm.
Water on.
Rumour re repatriation again rears its head. Camp grown veg to be included in Jap ration despite their promise to the contrary.
Lorry with nil 7pm. Paper has nothing worthwhile in it. Germans in East Asia under surveillance. ∴C
Had teeth filled (Dr. Lanchester).
Fine, clear, no wind.
Brackets for Blood-transfusion tubes.
All workers to H.Qs for pay (4-50)
A/r alarm 11.30-11.50am.
Sold my Canteen ticket.
Lorry with Canteen gear 11.30am.
Odd spots of trouble in Germany still. I.F. state caused trouble re German surrender. Hitlers body found in Chancellery cellar. Himmler escaped. Churchill warns of long & gard struggle with Japs. Chinese Army at WaiChow? Telegraph etc suspended to Burma, Thailand, Phillippines places in Taiwan & Coast Ports.
Rumour that Okinawa has fallen to us; paper says we have Rangoon.
Churchill says we have a long fight ahead against the Japs, and slangs the Irish in the newspaper.
Peggy and I, bridge with Alan and Alec at noon, they won by 5.
Garden produce now has to count as 'rations'.
Communal housing after the war under discussion.
Fine, warm.
Rope tyres on stretcher.
Cucumber frame for G.
Air & oil-fields & reservoirs on Tarakan occupied by Aussies. Japs think Kyushu Task Force & bombing is prelude to a landing. Russians demand immediate trial of Goering. Many German High Officials & wives committing suicide. Many Germans sent to work in Russian & French mines.
?C.
Letter from home Apr 44.
Draw for eggs Y18 each
Issue 3 pkts. cigarettes Y1.50 per pkt.
Close, hot.
Canteen eggs of doubtful origin Y18 each if one was lucky enough to draw one.
Barrow repairs.
Agent for M. gave me 2 pkts cigs.
A/r alarm Noon-12.45pm.
Egg, lard, onions G.
Letter from Hilda Nov. 43.
?C
Outside roll call.
Gave quiz at St. Agnes club.
Peggy and I played Dorothy and Sheila in evening, and had sweet tarts.
I may resign from the evening club, and Dorothy Wilson take over.