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Euro. news good. Far Eastern not so good?
Plans already made to resume duty.
Up to date two escapes made from camp
– doubtful if last attempt was successful.
Numerous guards posted around the camp..
Participated in four concerts up to date.
Should have made debut as Antonio in a comic opera but permission for concert refused.
No flour therefore no more pasties
The Maryknoll Fathers report that the Japanese have announced a loan from the Imperial Government - about HK$105 for each internee, with $30 to go into communal funds. They also discuss their bread ration:
100,000 cigarettes sent into camp (Globe) 3 pkts per person
Germans fighting rearguard action on their own soil. Malayan battles progressing in our favour?
Duck eggs.
Madeline Jeanette Owens born to Reginald Owens and Allison J. Owens. Mrs Owens is British and her husband is American.
Canteen opened;
P.M.G. & Z.B.W. staff came in from town. ((PMG was the Postmaster General, and ZBW was the government-run radio station, the forerunner to today's RTHK. The first head of radio broadcasting in HK was the PMG!))
Daughter born to Mr & Mrs R.W. Owens.
Russians getting on OK but not around Warsaw or Danzig. British captured Bengazi & are rushing troops etc to Eastern Med. to make new front.
Last of P.O. people arrived.
Road from Stanley Village to no. 7 block out of bounds
((Following text not dated:))
Cars being taken from racecourse. Paper says being returned to owners, but rumour forty being shipped to Canton daily.
Street names being changed to Japanese. Happy Valley becomes Aobadani.
Julie Rakusen said goodbye. Going Shanghai. Many people talking going. Fare officially $60. Black market $1,000.
Inoculation squad dirty, unshaven, three were university students. One very bullying and bad mannered. Japanese silent throughout. Chinese always perform in their presence.
No news & all quiet. Where will the Japs go next I wonder, Australia?
Have resigned myself to a longer wait & refuse to let our so called news influence me.
Made some XX
Newspaper says we are to have $100 each. Now I don't return to (work at) hospital till Monday.
Good extra soup tonight.
In response to recent escapes the Japanese begin to erect a barbed-wire fence which will eventually run through the garden of Bungalow C and cut it in half. the Bungalow's inhabitants ask the Chinese foreman to approach the Japanese with a view to keeping the garden inside the camp so that they can tend to the graves of the Allied soldiers buried there. He agrees to do so, but the Japanese refuse.
Lt-Col Nagasaki interviewed Mrs Jenner and R.J. Cloake
$300,000 loan to internees
Parcels for internees
All quiet, nothing doing. Finished my shoes. Bit of sunbathing.
Very little to eat. Enjoyed fried rice and sugar in evening. No pasty.
The Swiss have been considering the British request of April 14 and today sees an interdepartmental memo that makes their impotence clear:
It is necessary to remember that a note from the British Government of 21 December 1941 asked us to take on the the task of representing British interests in Hong Kong. The Japanese Government, when presented with this request, replied (in) a telegram of January 30 that they could not agree.
tin corned mutton for 4. tin salmon for 5 (lunch); (Purity).