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Cloudy, humid, hot.

Barrow & umbrella repairs.

Flask holder for V & G.

No fresh news. Chinese & Jap papers stopped.

4 Pkts cigs @ Y1.50 each issued.

 


To Confession.

Wendy Rossini asked me to work for her sister Winifred at hospital, which I did.  ((Winifred Rossini had joined Dorothy Holloway, Norah Witchell, Olive and I doing shifts in the hospital office.))


Order against trading in Camp, not allowed to sing lyrics or songs in open air

O.T. (teeth)


Bright, hot.

Rings from coins & Belt buckle.

No news.

M. lent me Y50.

Supper with V & G

?C


Sewed sheet out of pillow cases. ((I now wonder where the pillow cases came from))

Benediction in afternoon.

'Confirmed' at church:


WHIT SUNDAY - Sandbach / Wittenbach


((Following text not dated:))

No food at Rosary Hill by month end for Portuguese refuse go. Enemy nationals can't go Macao. 

Downstairs Jap family suddenly move to Robinson Road. Replaced by single man. Upstairs now also Jap family. Naughty kids. Putting grilles on doors.

Night alerts continue despite rain. But no planes heard. Three alerts at night on 18th May. No bombs or firing


& Whit Sunday, hot & clear.

Water on, did my washing.

Made slice for R.N.H.Matron.

Egg etc to G & V.

No news. Rumour has it that fighting is in progress in Canton & that many people in town are starving.


Pacifist meeting.

Worked in afternoon.  

Pasties.


Ellen Field (known at this time as Ellen Lee) leaves the Rosary Hill Red Cross Home for the safety of Macao.


Many happy returns of the day, Mother.  We have been sending our best wishes to Betty, Chère and Mother as their birthdays have come by. We have been sending our messages over the ether for, for the last few months (March onwards I think) we have been unable to send any Red Cross cards out for the simple reason that the Japanese have run out of their supply of cards! At least, that is what they say. But cards and letters still come in periodically; last month I had a card from Aunt E (the first POW card to me she had written) dated 25th June 1942. Only 2 years and 9 months old!


Bright & hot, overcast pm.  

Tea, sugar, oil & salt issued.

Leprosarium water pipes, thimble & buckles.

1oz Egg Yolk Y13.55 & ¼ lb Wong Tong Y8.20 ordered.

Much rumour re landing at Singapore & conjecture re HK$s being worth Y50 in town.


Peg (Barton) and I lost at bridge to Edith Johnson and Bang Stuart.

Dr Kirk says Mum has anaemia and must rest a lot.

2 letters from Auntie Lily.

Worked in am.


Hot, SW wind.

Lep. water pipes.

German lesson.

All Jap prop. in paper.

Overcast pm.

Mosquitoes a nuisance.

?C