What appeared to be gun flashes to the North early a.m.
Lights out 10 P.M.
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Black-out, lights out 10pm, instead of 11 pm
Spent night in Stanley Gaol cell. No. 56 top floor Hall F
Details of R.C. parcels posted.
Amazing edict today - all men of military age whose wives aren't in camp (Police under 40, civilians under 35) have to go and sleep in the Gaol for about 3 weeks. Supposed to be because there might be escapes attempted in the blackout, then the Japs would have to punish all of us. Even the young doctors had to go - Dr Loan, Dr Y-E and Dr Alan Barwell, athough C.S.O. staff have been exempted.
All the internees are assembled and Yamashita reads out a list consisting of most of the men aged between 18 and 35: they are to sleep from now on in Stanley Prison as the Japanese believe there is a plan for a mass escape linked to the recently begun (October 25) American air raids. The system lasts about three weeks.
Source:
George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 115-116
R. C. parcels taken over by us.
Police under 40 & civvies under 35 to F. Hall in Gaol from 7P.M. to 7A.M.
This is the day when things were supposed to happen but nothing did.
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Spent night in Stanley Gaol cell
Cheers Today Haemoglobin is up to 80% and Count to 4,260,000
OBJECTIVE: Reconnaissance flight over Canton, San Chau, and Hong Kong
TIME OVER TARGET: ~10:15 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two P-40E1s from 16th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group, China Air Task Force, 10th Air Force)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Jack R. Best and 1st Lt. Donald D. Bryant
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: None
RESULTS: Canton and San Chau obscured by cloud cover. Hong Kong almost entirely obscured.
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None observed
Mabel had tonsils out today, said she hardly felt it, she ate half a pasty at tiffin. She hardly felt it, but later on looked paler and unhappier.
Lent 'Limelight on the Lower Fifth' to Golly (F.J.) Anslow today.
The gaol birds came out and by all accounts spent quite a good night. Most have cell to themselves, they were let out at half past 7 am.
List of what is in the parcels came today - tea, margerine, bacon, biscuits, choc, cheese.
Sir Vandeleur Grayburn (codename: Night) writes to Douglas Clague of the British Army Aid Group. He describes the situation in the wake of the Fenwick/Morrison escape - the Kempeitai want to intern all bankers, but the Foreign Affairs Office and the Finance Department oppose this, as they still need their help.
He reports that the younger men in Stanley will have to sleep in the prison, even though this was only announced in camp yesterday.
Source:
Fine but cooler.
Plenty mosquitoes around.
Lybian news very good.
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Went to Stanley Prison 6.30pm to 7am
Remembrance Sunday (Sandbach / Myhill )
Poppies on graves
Service in Gaol 8.30 pm (Loan; lesson - C.P. psalm 46 "All people that on earth", "O God, our help..., "Abide with me") ((C.P. probably refers to the Commissioner of Police, Pennefather-Evans))
Rumours that Germans in Libya have collapsed.
The men this morning had orders to assemble outside to bring up parcels, but it was a false alarm - tomorrow instead.
Mum and I went for walk through the cemetery; graves ((war ones)) have been made up beautifully, and poppies - hand painted - placed on graves, especially on the VADs - Mrs. Begg, Mrs. Buxton (whose husband also was killed in the war), Mrs. Smith and others.
Lybian campaign over?
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R.C. parcels distributed
Today has been quite a gala day; there have been processions but no decorations. Our ‘comfit parcels’ have been distributed! And the processions consisted of the willing ‘able bodied men’ who carried the parcels from the godown to their various blocks. A prize giving wasn’t anywhere near it, and when we opened our parcels in our room we were like a lot of little kids at Christmas! An additional and unexpected thrill was to find that all these parcels came from London, England! Mine was packed in Bermondsey. Good old Bermondsey say I!
The parcels were distributed. Contents: apple pudding, beef steak pudding, tinned sugar, cheese, margerine, bacon, creamed rice, syrup, 4 ozs chocolate, soap; some Pascall green drops. The boxes ((cardboard)) were packed in 'Bermondsey' and 'London', most of them dated between April and June.
Dr Uttley says there are more parcels at Lourenco Marques awaiting shipment.
Newspaper mentions our prisoners of war working in factories in Japan.
The ((Red Cross) parcels have been issued at last, and what a feast we have had. They were not very big, that is the individual ones, but contained just what we were in need of....Tea, sugar, bully beef, tinned stews, fruits etc. are among some of the items...Also, some clothes, khaki shirts, shorts, socks and underclothes have arrived which we are badly in need of.
Source:
Diary of F. H. J. Kelly
We have landed in Spanish Morocco. Burma attacks OK. New offensive launched in N. China?
Rec. R.C. parcels.
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