Woy, owld Lind sends me in to Conly to cam in to him into the board-room. […] You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im.

I told him I would be late and he had a hissyfit.

Pa Blanken tells me that the Japs beat up our camp a month ago and we have lost all our heavy gear and moved up into the hills - he does not know where. Hell! No casualties, however. … Our material losses were very serious. The Japs had found a rucksack containing all our money, our medicines, including all our vital quinine, a copy of our signals plan, and a number of maps. […] It seems probable that the Japs spotted our camp from the air. They certainly knew its exact position and came straight to it.

For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee.