70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
11 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:26Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 11 Jan 1944Fine, cold.
Started German lessons with Crutwell.
Choir practice at 5pm.
With Steve after.
Black-out.
Lights went off in Stanley area at 9.30 but came on again 9.50pm.
11 Jan 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-05 16:40Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 11 Jan 1944Sudden alert 10 p.m. Lights out at mains for half hour. Bright moon but cloudy. No planes heard.
11 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2016-09-22 19:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 11 Jan 1944'Towkay' King tells Franklin Gimson of the arrest of HSBC banker Hugo Eric Foy. King does not know the charges.
It's probably no coincidence that the Commissioner of Police John Pennefather-Evans also comes to see Gimson today and gives him the names of those suspected of informing to the Japanee:
The list is a long one and naturally gives rise to conjecture as to the safety of anyone in camp.
Source:
Franklin Gimson, Diary, Weston Library Oxford, entry for today
Note:
The nature of the charges has never been clarified. Foy, like almost every other banker was involved in illegal relief work, but the only HSBC staff to be taken for this were Vandeleur Grayburn and Andrew Streatfield in March 1943. It's possible his arrest had something to do with the taking of the Chartered Bank officials which occurred a little later.
Foy will be sentenced to ten years in prison, transferred to a jail in Canton and be brought back to Hong Kong at the end of the war, re-joining his family in Stanley on August 23, 1945.
It's possible that William Cruickshank of the Chartered Bank is also arrested today. Gimson makes no mention of his arrest until February, but then links his case with Foy's.
11 Jan 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2017-01-19 16:1311 Jan 1944, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
Submitted by ssuni86 on Wed, 2019-02-27 22:37Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 11 Jan 1944OBJECTIVE: Drop anti-ship mines into Victoria Harbor
RESULTS: B-24s successfully drop mines into shipping channels of Victoria Harbor. Reconnaissance mission flown three days later photographs a 325-foot ship sinking in the channel where the mines are laid.
TIME OVER TARGET: ~7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Two B-24s from the 373rd Bomb Squadron (308th Heavy Bomb Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Unknown
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Seven anti-ship mines of unknown type
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: None
AIRCRAFT LOSSES: None
SOURCES: Original mission reports and other documents in the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
Information compiled by Steven K. Bailey, author of Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
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