Head better but pain in chest - was only mildly thrilled at MEAT PIE. Nasty taste in mouth.
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F. W. Shaftain, the police force's Director of Criminal Intelligence, is himself accused of a crime.
He's going home about curfew time (8 p.m.) when he's stopped by a guard who takes him at revolver point to the prison, where's he's searched by the Commandant and found to be in possesion of a jar of marmite. His story that he bought it for $55 is not believed and he's threatened and has a gun pointed at his head. After about half an hour, he's released.
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Short – “challenge of Palm Sunday” / MacKenzie Dow
Concert at American Club
Sultry day. Full day in Cookhouse. Some thunder & rain PM.
Penang recaptured. 1000 planes over Berlin. Japs who landed in Aus. 20,000 mopped up & another 40,000 sunk at sea?
Sunday. News today if it's really authentic -! splendid - I do so wish we could hear the news properly. That is the worst of being a prisoner. Hunger too is a funny thing. It is amazing to think we have never been really hungry before - now we are hungry all the time.
Cheero Darling. B
Pain in chest and heart feeling tired.
A day of torrential rain.
Journalist Gwen Dew and eleven other Americans are summoned to Japanese Headquarters. The group includes four other journalists, three Red Cross representatives and one Canadian.
Head of Foreign Affairs, Oda (Dew calls him Ota) gives them the first official news of the American repatriation. At this stage it's expected soon, and is limited to this small group, but over the next three months it will come to include almost all the Hong Kong Americans.
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News good in general & more optimism evident.
Rained.
Started shorthand.
Hill & I got over our campitis.
Shaved whiskers off.
AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Ron (Roland) Brooks in his Fire Brigade uniform, drawn on brown wrapping paper:
Feeling bad. Dr Kirk examined me. OK except for digestion, and slow pulse (40). Says I should have a good rest. But Mum is very sick.
Mum very poorly - chill etc.
Very cold, wet all day
Rotten day. Japs taking all furniture from the Colony. Musso skipped?
Good weather in afternoon.
About April, the Japanese shifted all the officers (with the exception of six M.O.'s for the hospital, etc., and a Major Boon, to act as Camp Officer) to the Argyle Street internment camp. They then erected around our camp an electrified wire fence, for a few of our men had managed to escape into Chinese-held territory, in Kwangtung - although unfortunately, some of these were eventually betrayed on the way by Chinese civilians, for rewards offered, and then shot out of hand.
Mum still ill. Dr came and she had her bread rusked. ((One kitchen on ground floor in Married Quarters was a sort of Diet Kitchen & Baby Clinic, where bread was rusked mainly for babies and toddlers.))
I'm still very tired and can't taste food, not even meat cake.
Finer day. Optimism OK.
Mum still weak and in bed. Mrs Kopeczky suddenly taken to hospital.