10 Nov 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

10 Nov 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Tue, 10 Nov 1942

190,000 Pris’s captured in Lybia. U.S.troops enter Algeria. Burma air attacks unmolested. Russia OK. Jap naval remains left Solomon area.

34 P of W. got away from Kai Tak by aid of guerillas.

Wilcocks & special assignment. ((Is that J L Willcocks, Commissioner of Prisons, or C Willcox, a policeman, or A C Wilcox, an accountant? The special assignment may be explained by tomorrow's diary entry: "Broke out & went to look for revolver"))

((G.))