Allies landed at Murmansk, Japan bombed?
Cookhouse all day.
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A special notice is posted in camp about the '$300,000 loan': every internee is to submit a list of requirements to the value of $75 to their block representative.
Dr. Nicol C. Macleod also posts a notice: notes on the prevention of dysentery.
Source:
MacNider Papers: 'Roll Call, Church 13', '$300,000 Dollar Loan', untitled
Prosecution of C.W. Younger notified
Janet Broadbridge left. More parcels arr
Mem. service for Col. Black & others who lost lives in Jap. attack on Stanley. (Martin)
News pretty good: Nagasaki bombed, 8 ships sunk. Aircraft carrier sunk by US s/m. Japs falling back in Burma 1,500 pris. captured by Indian troops.
German Army authorities in charge of German affairs due to defection of German troops. Towns in Italy & Germany bombed.
Marvin off the handle.
Death of Stuart Deacon, aged 57, from cancer.
The camp is gradually moving from having a bread ration sent in from town to baking its own bread with a flour issue:
Quite a goodsized piece of bread today. Now that we are getting a decent ration of flour we shall have to figure out ways and means to bake our own bread, for now the little we used to get from Hong Kong has ceased.
One of the bakers in town, Thomas Edgar, dates May 7, 1942 as the end of bread supplies to Stanley.
I must have been feeling a little blue when I made my last entry! Since then a crop of more cheerful rumours have been circulating and the food rations have improved slightly so I am feeling a little more cheerful.
Quiet day passed reading & a little study. Campitis evident. Change is the only cure.
As a result of recent escapes, a barbed wire fence is completed around the whole camp. Electric lights are also being put up around the borders, and a new masonry gateway with a guard post opposite is being built across the main road leading into Camp: 'We lose a little more of our freedom and are now quite interned'.
Source:
Maryknoll Diary, April 25
Storeroom figures for April 21 notified:
St. Stephen's Coll. incident - flashlights)
Concert at American Club.
11ozs flour issued.
Japan broadcast an appeal to the USA against indiscriminate bombing & 1000 planes bombed Germany?
Sticky day.
Today Mum has had 3 eggs, hot cake, scone and ordinary food. Tony Cole will give us some apricot rings for her.
Outside news is good- English landings in various French coast towns, destructive bombng raids on specific German towns etc., and bombing of Tokyo.
Details (individual) handed in to Am.R.C. for British Consul
Heavy downpour in p.m. (Short/Higgins/4pm.)
All news very good & if true should shorten our stay here quite a lot.
Cookhouse all day.
Rained, sticky.
Mum had her womb removed. It took 2 and a quarter hours. At 5pm we went up to ward and saw her just for a moment. She was just round from the anaesthetic, and said 'it's so sore' and 'don't worry', but her poor head was so heavy. Her legs were lashed up. She looked dreadfully pale, her hands so thin. We have to get hold of all the food we can for her. Dr Kirk and Prof. Digby did the operation.
I've been back working at the hospital. They made lovely scones yesterday.
H. C. Woo, the superintendent of blocks 2 ,3, 4 and 5, posts a notice saying it's essential that he be informed if any resident of these blocks is 'called to Hong Kong'.
The Harbourmaster Commander Jolly and A. K. Dimond, manager of the Hong Kong Hotel, enter Stanley.
It seems that there's still a fair bit of movement between the camp and the outside world.
Source:
Woo: MacNider Papers, 'Roll Call, Church' 13, 'Urgent Notice'
Rained off & on all day.
Riots in Italy? Potsdam & Salzburg bombed. Churchill says “No need to repatriate Britons in Far East as they will soon be taking over again. (“Cannot enter into negotiations re repatriation because events are moving too fast”)