15 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Fine, mild.

Cleaned rm, bthrm & kitchen.

4Pkts Cigs.

Jap Dr. around the Camp.

With Steve pm.

Black-out.

(5 more Es ex. in town. Gingles, Chester-Woods, Pascoe, Da Silva & Soares?)

((I guess he's noting a rumour that a further five people had been executed. Who is he referring to?

• Gingles: E F Gingle. He had been interned at Stanley Camp initially, but had later been allowed to live in the city.
• Chester-Woods: John Black's list shows a W R Chester-Woods interned in Stanley, but from Jones' comments it looks as though he had moved out of camp as well.
• Pascoe: Possibly Boris Pasco, who has been arrested by the Japanese at one point.
• Da Silva: Probably Marcus da Silva, who had smuggled money into Stanley.
• Soares: I'm not sure who this could be. Brian suggests "Soares might have been F. X. Soares, a banker who was certainly involved in some resistance activity but managed to escape to Macao before being caught." See http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/edward-gingle-at-war/))