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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 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-03-17 21:30
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 11 Apr 1944

    Windig, Kalt, nass und niedige wolke. Fossboden wiederliegten. Mit Steve um die Abend (Heer des Romanians sich ergibt? Zwei shiffe zu kommen um nehmen uns fort? Alle gutes Neues, wenn es wahr ist)

    ((R E Jones returns to writing in German for the next few days' entries. Jill & Brian translate today's entry as follows:

    "Windy, cold, wet and low cloud. Relaid floor. With Steve in the evening. (Romanian army surendered? Two ships coming to take us away?) All good news if it's true."

    ))

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  • 11 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-04-04 14:53
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 11 Apr 1944

    Tea, sugar, oil issue.

    Hatori gone to Tokyo for a month

    “Workers remuneration to be in cash”

    No prospect of S.P. outings ((or “cuttings?)) from gaol”

    B.O.


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