5 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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Mon, 5 Oct 1942
2 Jap convoys messed up off Formosa. Japs lost 2 Battleshps 4 cruisers & 11 transports & destroyers in an attack on the Aleutians. Burma bombed. 8,000 Japs mopped up in New Guinea.
C.S. & C of P. informed re my desire to rejoin R.N. if I am repatriated.
Cig. issue (5).
((Jones was a submariner in the Royal Navy before working in the Hong Kong Prisons. "C.S. & C of P" are probably the Colonial Secretary, Gimson, and the Commissioner of Prisons, Willcocks))
