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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 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Book / Document: 
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 11 Oct 1945

    Hot.

    Course NW by W. 0900.

    Cig ration cards issued.

    Porpoises.

  • REPATRIATION NOTICE NO. 16

    Book / Document: 
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 11 Oct 1945

    REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 16

    All persons registered for early repatriation should continue to stand by.

    As accommodation becomes available the names of those for embarkation and details of vessels and times of sailing will be published in the Press.

    Accommodation is uncertain, but it is hoped that those whose names have appeared in the Press may be able to leave.

    REPATRIATION OFFICE
    11th October, 1945.

    Published on p.4 of SCMP for 13 Oct 1945.

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