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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 Sep 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-06-06 14:06
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 12 Sep 1945

    Worked all day for Col. Strickland.

    Went to Canadian Cafe for cider at 12.30, then bought note books at China Products, now have a new plot book.

    We are to receive Red Cross clothing.

    Lovely meals - apricots, sausage, pork etc.

    Invitation for HMS Vindex tomorrow, and Swiftsure on Saturday.

    There's supposed to be a ship leaving Saturday, I bet I'm on it!  Want to be.

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

    Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2012-10-12 20:44
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Wed, 12 Sep 1945

    Death of James Carson Ferguson at the age of 64. Mr. Ferguson spent five months in Stanley before being 'guaranteed out' to join his wife and four children. In 1944 they were all interned in Ma Tau-chung Camp. At his death he was living at Dr. Atienza's residence in Lock Road, Kowloon. He was a leading Freemason.

     

    It's time for G. A. C. Herklots, now Director of Fisheries, to put into practice plans devised in Stanley, The front page of today's China Mail announces that a Fish  Wholesale Market will soon be set up in Central. Anyone wishing to sell at this or any other market will have to join a newly-formed Fish Wholesale Association.

     

    A letter from a disillusioned 'Essential Services' worker sent early into Hong Kong complains about the conditions they're experiencing: they don't have much to eat while Stanley's got butter in quantity, cheese, oranges, apples, chocolate and so on.

    Sources:

    Ferguson: South China Morning Post and the Hongkong Telegraph, 'Cleaning Up Stanley', September 12, 1945, p. 1 (Evening Edition)

    Letter: China Mail, September 12, 1945, page 2

     

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

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2015-08-27 17:14
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Wed, 12 Sep 1945

    Overcast & stronger wind.

    Posted my letter to Gwen.

    Rec. £2-0-0. My first shopping = 1 tube toothpaste & 3 Pkts Biscuits 4/6.

    My thoughts with G all day.


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