Foreign & General 1. Fighting reported on Manchukuo-Mongolian border. Daily Telegraph [a] Social 1. Unemployment now down to about 1,350,000. Daily Telegraph [b] 2. Egg-production of England & Wales in 1937 about 3,250 million. Smallholder, 24.6.39

[a] [b]

Warmer, sunny most of day. Planted pumpkin (somewhat too late, & in a too shady position). Earthed up north[1] side of the maincrop potatoes. No gaps, but some very immature. Lifted tulip bulbs. One early potato withered up – trust not disease. Turnips (28.6.39) are showing. One pullet limping. 15 eggs.

[1] Circled by Orwell; ‘west’ written by him on facing page. Peter Davison