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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.

  • 14 Jan 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2013-01-08 18:08
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 14 Jan 1943

    ((G.))

    Fish & pork rations arrived.

    Walk with S pm.

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  • Waichow Intelligence Summary #16, 14 Jan 1943

    Submitted by David on Thu, 2013-01-17 17:45
    Book / Document: 
    BAAG Reports and Weekly Intelligence Summaries
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 14 Jan 1943

    4. STANLEY INTERNMENT CAMP

    It is reported from two sources that Dr. Selwyn-Clarke is to be sent to Stanley Camp. 68 said that it was because the Japanese discovered medical supplies in the Red Cross parcels send into P.O.Ws. Camps. These were traced to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke to whom the Japanese objected, not against supplying the drugs but the clandestine way in which it was done.

    The second informant - 21 - said he had heard that the Japanese had sent an Indian named ABDULLAH to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke to ask for general guidance. The conversation was reported to the Japanese and rumour has it that the Japanese accuse Dr. Selwyn-Clarke of being in touch with H.B.M. Consul in Macao.

    Recently a number of people have approached us offering to get in touch with Stanley. Knowing nothing of these people we have said we are not in the least bit interested, and hope the news gets back to the Japanese, who may well have sent some of these men to us.

  • 14 Jan 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2014-06-02 18:21
    Book / Document: 
    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 14 Jan 1943

    The British Army Aid Group's digest of information, Waichow Intelligence Summary No. 16, bearing today's date carries this passage on page 3:

    J. D. S. ((almost certainly the HKU Vice-Chancellor, more usually D. J. Sloss)) is returning to Stanley this afternoon after staying out in the F. ((=French= St. Paul's, Causeway  Bay)) Hospital, for over four months.

    Sloss has revealed medicines urgently needed in Shamshuipo, especially diphtheria anti-toxin.

    The information about Sloss has come to the BAAG in a letter signed PREST. They don't know who this is at this stage, but it's Preston Wong, formerly a teacher at St. Paul's College, who will continue to send information until he's caught and executed with 32 others on Stanley Beach on October 29, 1943.

    Source:

    The Ride Papers, held at the Hong Kong Heritage Project

  • 14 Jan 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-01-03 16:06
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 14 Jan 1943

    “Here we are” (Joan Dupuy, Danny Wilson)

    “A marriage has been arranged” (Sheila Mackinlay, John Charter)

    “Dust before Fireworks” (Day Sage, John Stericker) (P. Jess, G-Bami ((sp.?)), Mills, John Roberts)


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