Some were sent to U.S.A. as repatriates; many are now applying to go as their homes are burned and business or occupation no longer can operate and for a long time will be no opportunity here to live as before the war; many have no funds and nothing to borrow on; so there seems to be no way except to go back; of course some of the internees don’t belong here, having been transients caught here by the war; these people naturally want to get back as soon as possible, but the real old time residents would rather stay if conditions were not so impossible; this the permanent home of most of us and most of those going back intend to return here as soon as conditions permit. I put my name on the list but do not intend to go soon but may send the boys back to schools, they have missed three years.
Mary is in the hospital with asthma and general poor physical condition due to hardships suffered during the battle of Manila.
Am looking for Arthur and still hope to hear of him in some hospital but am afraid he is dead; he surely would have got word to me somehow if alive.