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 Mar 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-03-05 23:45Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 15 Mar 1944Fine, cloudy.
Rice grinding.
Pram repairs for Steve
New system of rice rationing causing some headaches & upsets.
With Steve pm.
Mary ill with tummy trouble.
Black-out off.
15 Mar 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2015-01-17 16:32Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 15 Mar 1944Tonight in London an 'authoritative' statement is issued on the Japanese camps, which amplifies Anthony Eden's remarks in the Commons. Hong Kong is one of those places where occasional visits ((by Red Cross and other Swiss personnel)) have been allowed and conditions are on the whole tolerable, although well below acceptable 'European' standards with regards to food.
Source:
The Daily Worker, March 16, 1944, page 3
