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.
12 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2012-01-31 00:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 12 Mar 1942Death of Essie Jean Greenburg at the age of 46.
Mrs. Greenburg was a hotelier who'd put her 44 room premises on the market about two years before the war, citing ill health as the reason for sale.
In Chungking Phyllis Harrop wakes up at 9 a.m. after a night of deep sleep. During breakfast she is telephoned and told that a car will be sent to take her to the British Press Office and that meanwhile she mustn't talk to journalists. At the Press Office she meets two old friends, one of them Ronnie Holmes a colleague from Hong Kong.
Source:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271
Phyllis Harrop, Hong Kong Incident, 1943, 188-189
12 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-02-10 16:16Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 12 Mar 194212 Mar 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2016-03-02 02:06Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 12 Mar 1942Death of Mrs Greenburg (K. Docks). (45)
