Fine.
Some plane activity.
Meetings am & pm re letters of apology for trading. People concerned much concerned as to what to do about it. Gimson wrote pm to Hattori explaining all details & apologizing for the whole. Developments awaited.
Rec. oil, tea, sugar, & curry powder.
Repaired grinder.
Steve to practice pm.
Pui cha [? cup tea in phonetic Cantonese?] before 8pm.
Ground rice for congee.
Roll-call 2pm
(Rome fallen?)
Overcast, rained all day, some of the heaviest showers this year.
Ground rice for congee.
Investigation of “Traders” began. The Japs are going to be very thorough by today’s showing.
Baking oven under repair, congee pm.
Cassino evacuated by Germans. 17th inst.
Saw Steve pm.
4 Pkts. cigs issued.
Early roll-call, lights out 9.30pm.
Heavy rain storms early am cleared up during the day.
Ground rice for congee.
C.S. thinks we’ll be relieved during the year sometime.
With Steve pm.
Quiet day, no news.
Pay tomorrow?
Rotten weather, no news.
Ground rice & chopped wood.
With Steve pm.
Hattori expected but didn’t arrive.
(Rome fell 17th? Hainan in US hands?)
Better day.
Windy.
Ground rice.
Poor rations 82% sprats 18% bigger but most of it rotten & condemned.
1 sheet toilet paper & a mouldy toothbrush issued.
With Steve pm.
No news.
Paper fairly good between the lines.
New Moon.
Fine.
Ground rice, chopped wood, sweat plenty.
Made Steve a mute for his ‘cello.
Poor rations, squid or cuttlefish pm.
With Steve pm.
No news or rumours. When will it end we wonder.
Humid & overcast.
Ground rice.
Whit Sunday.
No news or rumours.
With Steve pm.
Supposed to be some good news in Camp.
Rained pm.
Showery & hot.
Ground rice & chopped wood.
4oz tinned mutton issued.
With Steve pm.
News in Jap paper very heartening re Italian Campaign. 20mls from Rome.
Muggy.
Ground rice.
Choir practice, polishing up the old stuff again.
Steve to music practice pm so I didn’t go see him for once.
Rep. Comm. to suggest children over 5 & under 15 to be included in American rep. if it takes place before our own.
Very fed up.
Cant. No 96.
Muggy, rained most of day.
Ground rice for congy & bread.
With Steve pm.
No news.
250 Portuguese to come in to godown?
Oil issue.
Heavy rain all day, must be a record the amount we have had.
Re-commenced baking.
¼ lb Wong Tong ((brown sugar)) issued.
Choir practice 5.15-6pm.
Saw Steve pm.
No news. Lousy start of a new month.
Alban Mts. mentioned. Inuxio [Inuvio? Invx10?] slopes.
Rained all day.
Ground rice for bread.
Added a little to my “letter” to Marj.
With Steve pm.
No news.
Wonderful feats by Japs in Burma make our efforts at war useless ha! ha! Biak Is. N.W. New Guinea occupied by us 27th May.
Cloudy, showery, improved later.
4Pkts cigs.
Awful tiffin.
Choir practice 5-6pm.
Steve to Concert in Social Hall. Saw M till he came back.
Paper makes it obvious that all Allied efforts are useless. Germans lynched one of our airmen. We seem to be stuck about 20mls S. of Rome.
Letter rec. by C. Thompson ((Perhaps C R W Thomson ?)) tells us Shanghai rec. Canadian parcels in April.
Blackout.
Fine weather to begin with but rained heavily aft.
Ground rice & beans for bread.
Fine weather again pm.
Food carrying. No paper today.
Congee pm. Very welcome. Rice & veg for evermore it seems.
With Steve pm gardening & mending cistern.
Fine, cloudy.
Rec. letter Mar 23rd ’43 from Marj. Tells of their holiday on a farm & of how the cream & milk put weight on them. I’m so glad, it proves she can afford a holiday & to enjoy herself.
Chopped wood.
New electrical regulations published. It seems we’ll end up as we began, with nothing.
Air-raid alarm 1.45pm. All Clear 2pm.
Trouble with Comm. Garden party. The guard got tough with one of them & it seems now that the whole party are going to refuse to go anymore.
With Steve pm.
Paper indicates Japanese catching it in the neck. Pope demands protection of Rome against destruction & his attempt to get food into the City on Vatican ships has failed. Rome has never been in such sore straights [sic] in all its history. Russians attacking strongly nr. Jassy; as we are nr. Rome.
Full moon. S. Cross 9.30pm.
Fine, hot, cloudy.
Rigged mosquito net.
Ground rice for bread.
Allies pushed Goering’s Div. back. Our forces 5 klms east of Rome (4th) Air-raid alarm of yesterday coincides with US raid on Kwongchauwan. Jap paper really very heartening although that is not their intention.
Choir practice 5-6pm. Steve at practice till 7.45pm.
Lovely moonlight night. I hope we are together again pal by or before next June’s full moon light.
Several internees went to Q.M. for X-ray. ((Probably Queen Mary Hospital))
Fine, hot, nice SW wind.
Some unpleasantness re dust-bin & stinking fish.
153 ½ lbs. wood to Dutch.
Rome fell 4th. Usual Axis tripe re humanitarian reasons, desire to preserve the place & being of no strategic value. Seems the Axis are catching it pretty well all round.
Lorry did not arrive until after 5pm. Wood had to be fetched from pier by our party despite protest made yesterday.
With Steve pm. talked of war & possibilities. Hurry up Yanks.
Showery, hot.
Ground rice for bread.
2nd. Front opened between Cherbourg & Le Havre with attacks on Channel Islands early am 6th. Ann. of Dunkirk. Badoglio resigns in favour of Prince Umberto who instructed him to form a cabinet. (Prince U. seems to be destined for the throne) Everyone very happy at the news. Jap. paper rubs it in about our losses as usual.
Sang in concert tonight, all the old stuff. Went OK too. Japs hung around to see if we made any 2nd.Front celebrations in the hall.
Japs becoming testy, touchy & petty. People being taken up to H.Qs on the least pretext.
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