“Dover Road” (play reading) (Tomlinson, Wadeson, J. Smalley, D. Holloway, Shields) (Colledge)
Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages
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Engineers, Customs, harbour, docks men went to C.S.O. and asked how long been in firm before war and how long in HK.
B.M. Wongtong ￥280, matches ￥20 box
E Read (SS) arrested – sugar (what sold, customers asked to return). Toihan ((sp.? Looks like Toihan but maybe Tollan?)), Bendall, Trevor Edwards also. Read slept in C.S.O
Outdoor a.m. roll-call (if coats worn must button)
Issue of 3 ½ packets cigs. ￥5.60
All raw rice to be handed in to Bl. Reps. and then to communal kitchens
B.M. at standstill
600,000 catties firewood due by junk
Bank deposit box papers handed to internees – NOT jewellery
Outdoor am roll-call
80 lbs shark’s liver oil delivered by I.R.C.
Rose / Ponting
workers cigs
Meat
pm roll call trouble – all called bk
told no more sugar until deficiency made up
B.M. Lard Y1,200, pork 1,000, cigs. 50
death – Albert Victor Frain (48)
Strange “bomb” incident Bung. A.B. & other S.S. are hit by seaplane (jettison)
Hurt – Myhill, Leida Wood, Harrison, etc, (J. visited T.B. Hospital)
Outdoor am – roll-call
Kadowaki addressed internees on “raid by American plane" & on subject of bowing ((sp.))
