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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 10 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 10:57
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 10 Oct 1942

    X-rays can start going in again.  ((Patients who needed X-rays were allowed to go again. They had been suspended because Stott escaped from the French Hospital in town where the x-rays took place.))

    Rosaleen's first wedding anniversary.  ((Her husband, Royal Scots, in Kowloon camp))

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  • 10 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:18
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 10 Oct 1942

    Double 10th but no celebrations.

    75 Japs killed?

    Strong wind.

    Fried bread & eggs at Steves.

  • 10 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 23:07
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sat, 10 Oct 1942

    fresh ((sp?)) internees issued with 5 1/2 oz. sugar and tinned goods.

  • 10 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2015-01-28 18:47
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sat, 10 Oct 1942

    Eric MacNider summarises a 'long letter' from Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, sent through his town-based Informal Welfare Committee, and received today. The doctor explains that, working with the Informal Welfare Committee, he arranged for families with small children to receive a parcel in June. At the same time he 'farmed out' others, especially single men, to those wiling to 'adopt' them. This explains why a few people have receeived parcels from unknown sources. Selwyn-Clarke believes many more would have been sent if it hadn't been for the depreciation of the dollar which led to price rises.

    The IWC had arranged a second distribution on October 8th. It had believed that those who'd been 'adopted' were receiving parcels, but  now the whole matter would be revised.

    The doctor asks those who have been 'left out in the cold' to accept his apologies for having 'failed them'.

     

    MacNider comments, in Selwyn-Clarke's defence, that since he's not been able to visit the camp there has been no opportunity to discuss such matters and this is the first time the camp authorities had heard of the 'adoption' scheme and its probable breakdown.

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    MacNider Papers, '1942, Informal Welfare Parcels'

    Notes:

    It seems that the ban on Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's visits to Stanley - imposed because of R. E. Stott's escape from the French Hospital - was about to come to an end.

    The dollar depreciation referred to is probably the switch from a rate of two HK$ to one Military Yen to four for a MY that was announced in the Hong Kong News on July 24.


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