Hall. "Marriage & Divorce" (Rev W.H. Alton)
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Hot. SW wind.
Slept on roof last night.
Hosp. Sisters’ Qtrs.
29 cigs rec’d.
Workers cigs.
(Rumours. Big landing made (no place mentioned) Japs “Peace feeling”. Churchill says HK only British Possession in enemy hands)
Fed up all day.
Ant. Eden ill, Churchill does his job meantime. Landing made 80mls S of Kyushu. Wuchow in our hands & more troops landed there.
Names on suitcases for Dr. Pope. G & V. G sweet.
At the beginning of this month the Japanese notified the camp authorities that in the event of heavy air raids over Hong Kong, transport facilities might be so disrupted that it might be impossible to deliver the usual rations to camp and that therefore, all land not already under cultivation must be taken over by the Communal Gardeners and prepared for vegetable cultivation. They have allowed extra rations for 60 more community gardeners.
Heavy shower early am. Cloudy, hot. SW wind.
Black-market stuff around the camp in wheelbarrows early am.
Finished off Hosp. job.
Made ring for Mrs Willcocks. Painted suitcases for Ah Ying & Ah Chung. ((Probably Chau Ying MILROY and Wu Chung Tai BLACKBURN, as they were both in the same room.))
With Steve pm.
16 years since we left Hong Kong in 1929.
Repatriation rumours - ship in Manila!
To club meeting. Harold Bidwell talked about Beaumont College.
Air raid alarms. We ate at 4pm because every one had to be indoors 4-30 - 5.30pm, people - some of them Europeans - went out from Gaol.
Finished writing 'Balancing Jean' very badly and scrappily.
A number of Allied prisoners, both civilian and military, are moved from Stanley Prison to a jail in Canton.
These include former Stanleyites William Anderson, Andrew Leiper, Reginald Camidge, W. A. Cruickshank and Hugo Foy,
Source:
China Mail, October 17, 1945, page 2
am outdoor roll-call
4.30 - 5.30 pm to stay in rooms, not to look out of windows - order was cancelled at 4.20 - apparently Europe ????? ((unclear - written in shorthand?))
Hot & heavy weather. SW wind cloudy.
Bit of a row with Franks in Congee queue.
Hosp. taps & wheelbarrow repairs.
Another ring for Mrs Willcocks.
Sugar 1.4oz & tea .6oz issued 10 day supply.
A/r alarm 10.45am – 11.30 & 12.30 to 1.50pm.
Rumour that some of the outlying beaches have been shelled.
Social in afternoon, great success. I recited poem:
Hot, SW wind. Trying weather.
Odd jobs.
Col. in 2.30pm for an hour.
Canteen A & B groups. W.T. ½ lb 34-50. Salt or Soy sauce ¼ lb 5-50.
Lorry in with beef 6pm.
Sheila's (Haynes) and Pat's (Cullinan) banns called for last time - as precautionary measure in case of invasion.
Tony Sandberg's and Esther Haughlands' banns called first time.
Lent Limelight book to Paulina Pemble (13), who is 'loving it.'
Brown / Ream (moral disease; inveterate sin; deliberate sin)
7 pm service in Club resumed Heath (SS)
Showers, hot, no wind.
No work today.
With G on roof 6.30 – 8pm
?G
Meat affecting some peoples tummies.
To St Catherine's meeting in morning, then we all started to pack in accordance with the latest rumour. It sounds impossible and rather grim, but that doesn't make it any the less improbable - we were caught on the hop on Dec. 8th 1941. ((Sadly, today I have no memory of what this 'latest rumour' was: maybe Mr Jones' diary will reveal this.))
Olive's bed broke in the night.
Medical exam, wt 132 - bl.pr 100
Played bridge in Peggy's room in evening.
Rained, hot & bright later.
Ground rice for G.
Window frame.
Got my Canteen W.T. & salt.
Rumour re Internees shifting to Gaol very persistent.
McArthur in Kunming. Fukien coast in our hand. 56,000 Chinese troops. Quelpart Is. attacked.
Lots of people ill with enteritis.
I started back at work again after illness.
IT'S supposed to be tomorrow. ((Whatever it was we expected on the 25th!))