The latest rumours are that both France and Russia have declared war on Japan, also that a combined French and Italian fleet are operating in these waters under our control.
We are geting potatoes cooked in with our rice now and it is much more filling than rice alone, of course we only get the same quantity of this mixture as if it was rice only.
Another Alarm last night. Yamma has left us but even so some of the Officers have had smaller beatings up from other guards.
Another BLACK OUT last night and quite a number of planes. Bread with scraping of butter for breakfast. 45 British Officers have arrived from a camp at SONSUJI - a show camp where they had a Red+ parcel each, every fortnight and saluted nobody below the Commandant. What a rude
Very hot on the farm today. Two of us got caught by one of the guards, the other chap with an onion, myself with a daikon (Chinese Radish). He came searching our pockets, he let us off in the end with a bribe of 10 American cigarettes each plus what
Got packet American cigarettes. Rumour has it that there is a possibility of every Sunday being a Yasume day during the hot weather .