70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
1 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-02-27 11:35Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 1 Sep 1942Mary's name is down for a chest x-ray and the threat of chest trouble looms again. She gets 2 bottles of milk a day at hospital and that will help.
Rumour is (a) the Russians are retreating round Stalingrad, and (b) the Russians have counter-attacked on various fronts. Also, that Canada has invited us in the Far East to go to Canada, all our expenses paid.
Mr Bendall gave Mabel a lovely cake of good soap for her birthday - Agafuroffs sent him in a parcel. ((Pre-war we often played tennis with Jimmy Bendall and the Agafuroff brothers at the Civil Service Club, Happy Valley. The Agafuroff brothers were not interned, I think they were Indian and probably both worked in the HK Government. I never heard anything of them after the war.))
1 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-08-30 21:48Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 1 Sep 1942No news of importance. High wind, rain.
1 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2013-06-24 22:18Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 1 Sep 1942Well-known Australian journalist Dorothy Jenner ('Andrea') has recently been elected representative of her camp area (such people were generally called 'blockheads'). It's not an easy job and today she confides to her diary, 'committee a hellish one - I am automatically everybody's enemy'.
Source:
Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 61
1 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 22:30
