28 Aug 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

Large crowd of Shamshuipo folk have just come over by launch.

It is Tim Fortescue's birthday as well as Peggy's, she is 22.

We had raw meat issue - a colossal amount, some we fried.

Radio messages say that food and other supplies have been dropped on pow camps in Japan; the pilots report that some of the men were naked  ((they were probably wearing just fandushis)); it's said they are going to be taken by carrier plane to Okinawa first.

Tale that 10% of Shanghai internees have to be hospital cases.

Lord Louis Mountbatten's Order of the Day to troops who have just won back Burma is that they can't be demobilised as so much (territory) has to be occupied in the Pacific so that places can be cleared up for handing over to the civilians.

Bickley, the blind fellow the VADs (and Mabel) nursed at Military Hospital was brought over and came to visit us.

Spoke to a fellow from Middlesex Regiment who said that Winter was killed in the war. ((Can't remember Winter's Christian name: he was a member of the small literary group I joined in 1940, he was so interested in 'writing'))

Pam Pritchard has had a perm and is being married next week.

Mr Gimson is broadcasting Home tonight, and there are to be messages from Home to us.

Peggy and I played bridge with Dick and Philip in evening.