12 Nov 1944, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

Thanks a whole lot for your loving letter of 21st August 1943, in which you tell me of having received my letter of July 1942, letters take a long time to deliver but actually we are all grateful and thankful to receive them at all.

Japan boasts of her prosperity in the Far East and how trade is better and conditions more beneficial to the natives than ever before under British rule. Well the Chinese will be glad to see us back again I assume.

The news continues to be good with the landing in the Philippines, Roosevelt's reelection and Stalin's speech about Japan being the aggressor nation. Well that's let the Japs know where they stand vis a vis Russia.

Glad to say that I am keeping well and fit and have got my appetite. Prof. Digby is going to remove the tag from my bottom on Wednesday giving me a local. This tag is caused buy one of the internal haemorrhoids having created a small roll on the outside. It shouldn't be very much and all being well I should be out of hospital by the end of next week. My weight has gone down considerably being now only 140 lbs. However I'll make it up.

The water has now been cut off completely so that we have neither light or water.