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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.

  • 12 Jun 1945, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-02-27 02:19
    Book / Document: 
    WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong & South China
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 12 Jun 1945

    The raid was reported in the next day's Hongkong News:

    Air Raids on Hong Kong-1945

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  • 12 Jun 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by alexis on Sat, 2014-06-28 14:59
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 12 Jun 1945

    a.m. Heavy bombers over

    Canteen draw for S.G. fl., salt, peas

  • 12 Jun 1945, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-05-16 15:38
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 12 Jun 1945

    Quiet broken by daylight raid. Jelly bombs. Hit Wanchai coffin shop, mah jong school and Happy Life Clinic. People pick up for vaseline. Jelly bursts into flame after few minutes. Next day three B24s brought down. Total 59 raiders. Central hit. Hospitals short of bandages, gauze and other requirements.

  • 12 Jun 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-05-30 10:42
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 12 Jun 1945

    Fine, hot.

    Oven frame.

    Made 10cts ring for Betty. ((Not sure who Betty refers to))

    A/r 10.45-12.15pm. Many large 4 engined bombers over. Photography?

    ∴C

  • 12 Jun 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2016-04-30 20:31
    Book / Document: 
    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 12 Jun 1945

    Doctors Gustav and Helen Canaval are re-interned, this time in Ma Tau-wai Camp, Kowloon.

    On October 6, 1943 the two doctors were transferred from Stanley to act as Medical Officers in the Rosary Hill Home that had been set up by the Red Cross to look after the impoverished dependents of British internees and POWs and other indigents. Red Cross Delegate Rudolf Zindel claims he was forced to accept them because the Japanese refused to release any 'native' British medical personnel but allowed the Canavals out of Stanley because they didn't accept their status as 'naturalised' British (he was originally Austrian, she Hungarian). Zindel states the pair caused him huge problems by their high-handed attitudes and that matters came to a head when one of the victims of their behaviour posted an anonymous letter containing threats under Mrs. Canaval's door. She demanded he provide Gendarme protection, so Zindel consulted with the Foreign Affairs Department, and agreed with their idea that adequate protection could only be provided by re-internment. This infuriated the doctors, who responded, if the Red Cross delegate is to be believed, with the detailed critique of his policies at Rosary Hill that circulated after liberation and caused the Red Cross some embarrassment with its claims of mis-management and waste.

    We don't have the Canavals side of this story!

    Source:

    Archives of the International Red Cross, Geneva: Zindel to ICRC, in BG17 07-074, 


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