9 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
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Some Police escaped from camp last night. Lots of good news about - re American planes over Kowloon Dock; Hainan recaptured. I'm very tired again.
SUMMARY OF RECENT DAYS
Mrs G was in hospital and since her return she's been very sweet and kind to us, particularly in bringing extra soup for Mum (Mrs G worked in the kitchen), and for Mrs. K too who has just come back from hospital.
During the past fortnight a kind of diarrhoea and dysentery has swept through the camp, the hospital has had to discharge patients on stretchers.
There is enough porridge left for one more meal.
On 20th March we learned that some people had escaped from the camp - along them Elsie Cholmondeley - the girl in National Stabilization Board of China where I might have had a job; also Van Ess, and others. Since then Roll Calls twice daily have been instituted.
I don't think there's much chance of Mabel coming in from Bowen Road Hosp.
Mum has lost 27 lbs, she's only 161 lbs.
More flour is coming in (but less bread), and sweet potatoes have been coming in regularly for the past fortnight.
Rumours too good to be true: Russians round Danzig; Germans and Japan have not much longer to go; various buildings in town have been sabotaged.
