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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.

  • 11 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 10:59
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sun, 11 Oct 1942

    Dr. Y-E says Mabel may get up soon and take a walk, and be examined after it. She said she heard something about her tonsils being yanked out.

    Lovely fried fritter and baked potato, but everyone is ready to rebel because of no pasty or dumpling since Monday.

    Went to Club (Prison Officers') in evening, so crowded – I had to sit behind the piano.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:19
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sun, 11 Oct 1942

    3 years married today & again no celebrations.

    Rain & wind.

    Japs have lost in 10mths., 197 warships & 4 hundred odd merchant vessels. Russians cut off German supplies at Stalingrad?

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

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2013-12-02 19:16
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sun, 11 Oct 1942

    Today is presumably the day when, according to Emily Hahn, Hong Kong became 'a pit of horrible misery'. The Hong Kong News announces the losses on the Lisbon Maru: 'H. K. Prisoners On Torpedoed Vessel/Nearly Half Of Total Lost Through Action Of American Submarine'. The article paints a picture of Japanese efforts to save the POWs that is totally mendacious and probably was not believed by many.

     

    Things might be hard in Stanley but they're much worse in Kowloon's Shamshuipo POW Camp: today the number of deaths in an epidemic of diphtheria and related diseases peaks at 6. In contrast, there were 7 deaths in Stanley between August 18 and 13 December - and the youngest person to die was 45 years old, while most of those in Shamshuipo were of course of miitary age.

    Source:

    Pit: Emily Hahn, China To Me, 1986 ed., 409.

    Shamshuipo: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, October 11, 1942

    Stanley: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 186

  • 11 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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    Sun, 11 Oct 1942

    (Sandbach) / Martin


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