War Diaries (February 13) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for February 6.
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Aizawa Kikutarō: February 6, 1904
I went to the village office at dawn. Due to the general mobilization order, everyone worked on conscription matters. Although it was my half holiday, I stayed until the evening. The mayor was absent. I had been planning to go to [my cousin's house in] Kawarajuku and on to the land registry office, but due to the mobilization I postponed it. In the afternoon I sent Taijirō to fetch Shigeharu [Aizawa's son, from middle school in Tachikawa], and in the evening I sent a letter to Kawarajuku. Kaku pounded rice in the morning, and Taijirō put fertilizer down among the mulberry bushes. He used one basket for fifteen bushes, or one and a half gō (0.27 liters) of rice bran per bush. Altogether he spread twenty baskets, for a total of four and a half to (81 liters) of rice bran, mixed with one barrel of human manure. Altogether there are about two thousand mulberry bushes, so in total we can expect to use four bales of rice bran.
—Aizawa Kikutarō (diary)
George Beck: February 3, 1944
Another one of our lads has lost his wife, this makes over half of us married men to have lost their women, there’s divorce cases all over. I’m lucky myself. A rumour goes that we are to be allowed to go to the pictures but we think it is all bunkum it remains to be seen. Weather terrible, over the knees in snow.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)