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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.

  • 15 Oct 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-09-30 18:31
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 15 Oct 1943

    Fine & dry.

    Canteen for Stone/Store [?]

    Concert at St Stephen’s pm well received.

    ¼ lb lard issued free. Very welcome, so was the mutton pasty. 

    Plenty people going sick from St Stephens.

    A Mrs Potts came in from town, said Hatori told her of repatriation at beginning of Dec. also that Jap paper news is at least 2 wks old.

    ((Brian Edgar: This was Suzie Potts, wife of A. H. Potts.

    She claimed French nationality through her mother at start of war, but decided to go into Camp because her son was sent to Stanley from Shanghai (he'd been at school in Qingdao but ended up interned in Shanghai with a man called Hawkins who was looking after him.)

    Emily Hahn writes about the family in China To Me.

    Source: RTHK interview with Alex Potts.))

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  • 15 Oct 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Sat, 2015-06-06 22:05
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 15 Oct 1943

    Classical concert ((see 14th for details))


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