The third birth in Camp: Camille Tweed Denton.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
See also June 6, 1942 and July 7, 1942.
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News very heartening still. Progress in Malaya. Germans repulsed in Turkey. Japan & Germany being bombed.
Good Friday – no bread issued. 9 loaves for 700!!!
Prison main gate “out of bounds”
Baby girl born to Mr & Mrs G.H.A.Morris
Feeling rotten, and Mum still staying in bed.
Over the past weeks food has got much better. Rumour that we would be sent to Shanghai, but the latest is that consuls and journalists are to go, and that is apparently true. A strong feeling in the camp that the troops have been sent to Formosa. If so, we think the actual implication is good i.e., that the Japs don't expect to hold here.
Birth of Barbara Mary Morris to George H. A. Morris and Ida L. Morris.
United Church Services notice:
Good Friday;
Service of Meditation on the Seven Words from the Cross...12 noon - 3 p.m.
Conducted by the Rev. Dr. P. Beaver.
New passes for Third Nationals to be applied for. All over ten must have passes.
News good if true. Reinforcements landed in Philipines.
Baby born to Mrs Denton. ((A post-war report in the China Mail dated the birth to 2nd April, see: http://gwulo.com/atom/23247))
Dearest, I have thought of you all so often today as I know you will have been thinking of me. I have assumed you are 3 hours behind us - we are on Tokyo time you know but of course if you went to Durban you would be 7 hours behind us - or you may be nearer - I hope not. For if you were caught in Singapore or the Dutch East Indies you will be suffering as we are here. But I had a happy birthday - at least we made a joke of it. Yesterday I pounded up some rice to made rice flour - got a little baking powder and made some scones.
Married Q. rations again ((because on sick leave and not working at hospital)).
Quiet day. No fresh news.
Easter Sunday – a.m. 2 biscuits each: sudden change in weather in p.m. very windy & rain
Sandbach/Short
Easter Sunday - Mass in open. Mum a little better. The dam kids had eggs. ((Eggs (NOT Easter Eggs!) were sent into camp, but given only to the children - two or three each.)) We grownups furious.
First Easter Day in Stanley:
The united services were held in the hall of St Stephen's College, which was crowded that Eastertime. The lilies, red and white, were in bloom. The sky, seen through the windows, was very blue. The distant hills were becoming lighter green with new growth. Men and women of different churches or of none were bound in a common act of worship. Some knelt on the bare, brown boards or on straw mats, some sat upon tools or cushions they had brought, the rest stood together at the back of the hall.
½ flour ½ rice day. 1st attempt at making small loaves. Not much of a success, no yeast or baking powder.
No news.
Mum and I both feeling better. Was able to get milk for Mum from Baby Clinic. ((A small number of little bottles of fresh milk were went in daily byJaps for children, and a few for the most needy cases in hospital.))
We had fun turning out suitcases ((and enjoying holding Olive's trousseau - lovely silk underwear - which our amah had taken to her in the Chinese hotel.))
Wet and cold.
Chartered Accountant A. A. Bremner and his wife (M. B. S.) have a boy, John Alexander Bremner.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
Stanley Camp Roll
Note:
The Roll gives the birth as 1941.
Japs having trouble in town? Big centres in Japan in flames, aero factory etc? Russians in Warsaw?
Cookhouse.
Americans not very polite when I enquired about my fridge.
Actually full up tonight, had 1 and a half pasties, and a piece of Mrs Knox's blancmange (She a neighbour in our block.) Mrs K back from hospital. My eyes bad.