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.
13 Nov 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 13 Nov 1944News of Manila raids.
13 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:35Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 13 Nov 1944Overcast, NE wind.
Store partition & wood.
Water on at 7am.
Lorry at 1pm with veg & papers.
Patton’s Army advance 10mls on 55ml front. Cross Moselle N of Metz. Kyushu bombed 9th. 80.B.292. Kweilin occupied by Japs 10th. Concern re Wangs condition 11th. Forli occupied 9th.
With Steve aft.
13 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:18Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 13 Nov 194413 Nov 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2016-09-19 17:19Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 13 Nov 1944The water supply is restored this morning. Franklin Gimson is grateful to the Camp authorities for working with the Governor's Office to bring this about. Nevertheless, a delighted Hasegawa tells him that the internees should proceed 'with the construction of tanks, wells, latrines etc. in order to prepare for any emergency'.
Source:
Franklin Gimson Diary, Weston Library, Oxford, p. 104 (recto)
