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taken out by Dr. Selwyn Clark to one of the Chinese Hospitala to have her baby and she lent me her camp bed until she returned. There was no furniture in this room at all and the only shelf was a window sill no hooka and nowhere to hang anything nails being most difficult to come by - Sitting in a cheir is a luxury even now.
Paragraph 14 - Food
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The Food, quality and quantity provided by the Japanese is appalling one two meals a day - to each person per meal approximately 4 ozs. of rice, of most inferior grade - it is that very broken rice, known I believe as "Cargo rice. The soup often consists of lettuce leaves and water fish most smell in quantity and often bad - The first days of my atay in Stanley the food was almost "un-eatable" - consisting of this appelling rice with a spponful of fish and lettuce and water stew placed on the top - many being so revolted by the smell of the not too fresh fish being unable to eat any of it at all when Thompson and I left food was slightly better due to the Bungalow drawing raw rations and cooking for ourselves and also meet and sometimes one or two cabbages and sometimes tomatos being added to the rations. Smell ration of bread every day due to Dr. Selwyn Clark's efforts. I might remark here for purposes of comparison that, I undestand that, we used to feed our Chinese prisoners in the Stanley jail in Hongkong 21 oze of rice a day with meet and fish twice a week.
W.P. Thompson's notes read as follows:-
"I have touched on the revolting food in the Chinese Hotels Once in the Camp we were bound to the following rations:
Rice
Meat or) Fish
Vegetables
Firewood
Sugar
Salt
Flour
Tea.
catty per person per diem - to commence with 1⁄2 lb.
1 oz. per person per diem.
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A very small supply of lettuce or cabbage - about 2 or 3 lettuce leaves each.
A Log of about 50 catties per 50 persons per diem.
oz per person per day
A microscopic issue from time to tine
Occasionally some enough to make a small chappattie per person when issued.
X11 (I might say we received a small ration on one occasion)
The rice, meat or fish and vegetables when
cooked up into a atew under great difficulties owing to the shortage of firewood, amounted to le as than a normal
rice bowl full twice a day. People went damnably hungry until they had more or less accustomed themselves to this strictly
reduced diet. The search for food became predominant in
people's minds. So much for the official rations. Periodically the
meat