23 July 1945

According to what I hear there was a very heavy raid on last night so that knocks the rumour of an Armistice on the head.

The rice ration is so small these days that one can feel themselves getting thinner and weaker every day. We are in the majority, just skin and bones, and we have to do a fairly heavy day's work on this, in fact, the Officers are about the hardest worked in the whole camp, and, apart from the sick, get the least food.

Got paid today Yen 20. They've even cut this now.

Got a bit of mild face slapping this morning from a rat of a youngster about 16 years of age, absolutely for nothing, that's what makes it so dammed annoying, that and the fact that one can do nothing about it.