Rudolf Zindel, the Red Cross Delegate, makes his second visit to Stanley, this time in the company of Takeo Oda of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Department.
Zindel will not report on this and his first visit until December, when he will sum up affairs as 'definitely "satisfactory," although there was still room for further improvement in several respects'.
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It’s getting warmer and the crisp air is grand. It’s perfect to sit out on the open deck and soak up air and sunshine. The children all have a cold, but this grand air should cure it quickly.
Someone gave me a pair of brown suede shoes and they fit fine. Boy what a different feeling to have shoes on that look like something! I also received a pair of hose from some kind lady, but one hardly dare wear them lest we have nothing when we land. I have gone without for almost 6 months so I hardly miss them.
1 tin corned beef (12.oz.) for 3 for 2 meals.
Issue of Royal leaf cigarettes 4 pkts. For $1.20
No fresh meat again.
Trouble in town.
Bodies on beach near Cemetery.
Fine day.
OBJECTIVE: Bomb Tien Ho airfield at Canton
TIME OVER TARGET: ~4:15 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Three B-25s from 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) escorted by 3 P-40Es from 23rd Fighter Group. All aircraft are from the China Air Task Force (10th Air Force).
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Major William E. Bayse (B-25s); Major Edward F. Rector (P-40s)
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Chinese 50-kg incendiary bombs and 17-kg fragmentation bombs
Electricity off in a.m. and hasn't been on since.
Swimming to start on Governor's beach ((in peacetime it was the Governor's)). Our turn was in the morning, but hitch occurred and we waited in vain ((for permission to go to beach)).
1 tin corned beef (12.oz.) for 3 for 2 meals.
(Brown)/ T. Mullholland
Swimming ???? ((unclear)) began at 3. pm
Fine day. Typhoon warning. Rained PM.
Usual Sunday. No news. Paper looks bad for us.
Tinned meat.
Electricity still off in some quarters.
Mabel has pain in throat, Dr. Hackett said it might be an incipient quinzy, she has been given gargle.
We have acquired a camp bed for Mabel through one of the young RC priests. ((Up to then, she'd still been sleeping on piled-up suitcases)).
Shanghai people are supposed to be leaving us for Shanghai if they can get the money for their fare from this end.
Bobby had a terrible cold and both he and I slept very little last night. Dr. Lang ((Was he in Stanley?)) gave him medicine and I do hope he will soon be smiling again.
We packed some, as we expect to arrive at Africa tomorrow.
((They were heading for the port of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, then under Portuguese rule. After independence, the city was renamed 'Maputo'.))
1 tin corned beef (12.oz.) for 3 for evening meal.
The first parcel that Yvonne Ho and Herbert sent us contained 5 different 12 oz tins of jam, 4 Indian corns on the cob (fresh), and two tooth brushes! We gave one corn to Maudie Min., one to the chaps in the room and the other two we took over to Kitty and Billy Hacket and shared them with them. We made a little cheese sauce and they were delicious!
No news.
Rained.
13 ½ lb for 108 people (Pork).
People for Shanghai notified to be ready to leave on 22nd.
Elec. off all over until evening.
Shanghai people postponed for a few days.
The papers say that Britishers in Hong Kong will not be repatriated.
The British Army Aid Group sends out a long document summarising the information provided by Staff-Sergeant Patrick Sheridan (escaped June 4). The section headed Stanley Interment Camp begins:
News from this camp comes from patients who are brought into the French Hospital for x-ray or special treatment.
Dr. Court interviews these patients and instructed me to try and pass on this information to someone in authority.
Rain all day
Departure of 59 people for Shanghai postponed
No electricity until 4 PM
Asama Maru arrives at L.M.
We have had about 10 days of pouring wet hot weather lately, broken by one day with a scorching day of cloudless sky. All day long on that day, all sinks and basins were fully occupied by women feverishly washing arrears of soiled clothes. Yvonne got hers done and out in the sun in time, for the next day down came the rain again. This wet weather is the result of two typhoons which passed within 100 miles or so of HK. We had quite a good blow about a week ago, but nothing approaching typhoon force.
Rained.
People for Shanghai checked luggage. Later departure postponed.
Pork.
Paper tells us that Britishers in HK will not be repatriated.
News bad in Russia, so-so in Egypt.
Pork today – Olive felt bad after it and went home from office, and Dr. Selwyn-Clarke came in and so I was busy as busy.
Our flat's electricity still out.