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 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:13Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 15 Aug 1944((Date is approximate))
Sudden news that we were going to get Canadian parcels.
We all had to give up our private little gardens on the ex-football pitch to become communal gardens as food getting shorter, so our sweet potatoes which were coming on so well had to be hurriedly dug up.
Electricity went off for good (we were told).
Diet Kitchen had to close down.
15 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2014-06-08 13:21Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 15 Aug 1944Wind veered to SW early am. Cloudy, showery. muggy, brighten pm. Wind NE.
Japan bombed again 12th. Things seem to be shaping up for a showdown out here. All our fronts doing OK. Talk of new German weapon, a flying bomb that on explosion releases inflammable gas which is then lighted with incendiaries.
With Steve pm.
Ground rice & chopped wood.
Canteen.
5 days oil issued.
