19 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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Thu, 19 Oct 1944
Fine, warm, NE wind.
Cookhouse construction & woodchopping.
Jap plane activity all day.
Lorry arrived with veg 3.45pm.
Their paper cracks up their Taiwan “victory”. Canton & Swatow raided 17th. Manila & Taiwan heavily raided, both at same time from same task force 17th. 6 planes supposed to have been brought down from our raiders on Monday. Aberdeen 200 junks sunk & damaged. HK 7000 killed.
Formosan guard reckon on leaving HK next month. Japs shipping arms & ammo back to Japan.
With Steve pm.
Mary lent me Y20 & gave me 7 cigs.
New Moon.
