16 Apr 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
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Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-05-11 16:00
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Mon, 16 Apr 1945
Went down to the nullah and did a big clothes wash, but lost my soap in nullah ((across which was barbed wire, so I couldn't get at it)). Someone's fault for taking out the stones which some one else had put there after they too lost their soap.
Air raid alarm just as I finished; apparently a false alarm, but another about noon.
Shigometsu (or some name like that - a Jap Minister) has committed harikari they say.
The camp expected an attack last night: now expected tonight. ((Can't remember any details of expected attack... I imagine this means the Allies were expected to attack the Japs.))
We opened our last tin of tomatoes tonight.
Had eyelashes done.
