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Birth of Arthur Groves.
The Reverend Wittenbach in today's sermon says that there are three things wrong with Stanley Camp: too little food, too little space, and too much talking and quarrelling. He urges a strong Christian campaign against rumour-mongering. If any such campaign was indeed launched, it can be judged a total failure.
Sources:
Birth: China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
Sermon: MacNider Papers, 'Repatriation', 29
Showery.
Belgians interned. Why?
Japs captured Mandalay.
3 reps going to HK for preliminary purchases ($300,000 loan orders) postponed to May 6
Death of Mr. John Blyth (42)
Death of baby Arthur Groves son of Mr. & Mrs. A.G. Groves (12 hrs)
Mum had big stitches taken out. Got sugar and choc. via Mrs McGowan.
Death of Arthur Groves, one day old.
Death of John Blyth.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
3 Jap Cruisers & 2 Destroyers sunk in Behring Sea.
Armoured Divs landed in Belgium & have captured Liege. Churchill asked French people for their co-operation with our troops.
Italian delegates at Gib.
Sent telegram to Marj.
Cookhouse all day.
Rained.
Bread delivered 8 a.m. to rooms
15th wet day
Anti-cholera injections
Issue of 1 lb. flour
Tried to make bread ((by growing yeast from rice, and wrapping it up when mixed with flour to keep it warm. Mrs G cooked it in Married Quarters kitchen where she worked))) Turned out fine.
Mum had all stitches taken out.
From today a weekly dose of thiamin, supplied by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, is added to the internees' soup. This halts an epidemic of wet beri beri: there were 84 cases in May, 65 in June, 8 in July and none in August.
Starting in June the thiamin is adminstered in a daily dose of 3 milligrams, which proved to be more effective.
Source:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 150
A chess tournament begins. Some Maryknollers send ten word telegrams and wonder if they and the previous postcards will ever arrive.
Canton and Sha Tau Kok bombed?
C. K. Shek warned Kowloon Chinese to leave in ten days as he was going to bomb the place?
Air raid practice in town.
Drizzly all day.
Walked around camp with Steve.
Dr. Edward William Ronald Hackett and Mrs. Kathleen Rosalie Hackett have a boy, Conner Hackett.
Source:
China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3
Stanley Roll
Note:
Mr. Hackett attended the Stanley Camp Gathering/Reunion organised by Geoffrey Emerson in November-December 2011.
Lovely evening.
More rumours re Chinese bombings. Nothing confirmed & Italian peace rumour denied.
Jap. sloop arrived in bay
Main road closed 2-4 p.m.
(See page 36)
Dull & raining.
Jap warships anchored in the Bay.
Chinese capture Canton?
Many Jap wounded arrive?
Cookhouse all day.
Finer.
Italian negotiations still going on & some warships of theirs surrendered at Alexandria.
Three German towns wiped out & three Jap towns bombed. Japs protest to Russians re allowing USA to use Vladivostock as airbase, Russians reply “Come & stop them”.
Jap games (?) in Burma cost them severe losses in men etc.
20,000 French come over to British in Madagascar.
B.E.F. hold a line in France. Vichy French attack their rear.
Concert at S.S. Hall cancelled
Purchase reps. went to town
Sloop left a.m.