The wailers were well on the go last night. The Interpreter, who has been away for a couple of days, on his return said that it was disgraceful the way PoWs were being treated in the way of food. Japan was in a bad way but not so bad that
The rumour is still strong that the Commander is leaving - the date mentioned is the 30th. No improvement in the rations today except that we had potato stew this evening without solids in it. It is days now since we had vegetables and on our way to and from
The sirens were on the go again last night. Bread started again today and automatically it meant a further cut in rice. Where previously breakfast rice was small it was even smaller this morning and the vegetable stew was just like muddy water with no solids in it; this of
Sirens were on the go again last night. Had coffee for breakfast. The rumour is still on the go that Peace Talks are still going on between America and Japan.
Rained heavily all night and although raining hard this morning we still had to hall in for work and got soaked through whilst waiting to march off. Finally, we were dismissed back to our huts. Meanwhile the Squad Leader·got a pretty good beating up over the head with a
Had my first taste of FROG today and it was quite good, more like chicken, must try out a bit of snake meat. Another rainy day with the inevitable soaking through. The Sirens were on the go again last night. Food is still as short as ever.
Plenty of wailers on the go last night but heard nothing more. Had quite a good muck about for breakfast consisting of a balance of broken pieces of chocolate, jam, 80 packets of sugar and all the raisins and prunes cooked up with the rice, but there was no vegetable
Yasume today. Reveille and Roll Call one hour later. Breakfast was a trifle better, but nothing to write home about. Had coffee without sugar or milk. Got weighed - 48.5 kilos with a loss of 4.4 kilos , nearly 9 1/2 lbs. It certainly shows what the cut
Still no stew for breakfast so let's hope some vegetables come in for the evening meal.
Had a shock for the evening meal; got a small portion of tinned salmon with the rice but we but there was no stew as vegetables did not arrive at the Camp. The latest rumour is that we have now got Singapore, Malaya and Java and are in Sumatra. Also
At about midnight last night it sounded as if hell had been let loose in the New Officers Hut, and we were preparing for a good beating up. It finally turned out that these Officers were pulled out to go and unload a lorry load of nails, wire, etc. The
Quite a few incidents of stealing of cigarettes and beatings up have occurred lately with the Guards, who are the culprits. They went to the Other Ranks Hut, next to ours yesterday and turned over all kits and took away about 16 packets of American cigarettes. Five men were caught