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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 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2012-01-17 22:59
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 10 Apr 1942

    The Japanese give permission for short messages to be sent to Hong Kong Prisoners of War - but on April 25 it's learnt they haven't yet been sent.

     

    The four escapers of April 8 are recaptured after approaching a Chinese man named Wong and asking for helping crossing to the mainland. Unfortunately the Lei Mun area is a hotbed of Chinese who sympathise with the occupiers. Wong, a fluent Japanese speaker, informs the Japanese army, and first Morrison and then the others are apprehended. Randall is wounded by a Chinese during his capture.

     

    They are taken to the Happy Valley Gendarmerie and held for five weeks in overcrowded and filthy conditions and fed on two small bowls of rice a day, sometimes accompanied by a little coarse salt and water.

    Sources:

    Permission: John Stericker, A Tear For The Dragon, 1958, 173

    Escapers: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 105, 102, 259

    Note:

    See also entries for April 8, April 9 and June 20 (all 1942) and June 20, 1944

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

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-03-13 15:28
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 10 Apr 1942

    In Cookhouse all day.

    No news.

    Heavy explosion heard about 3.45AM.

  • 10 Apr 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2016-04-02 14:26
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 10 Apr 1942

    No. 7 block moved to Indian quarters. Kitchen now 2,3,4 & 5 blocks.


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