70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
16 Dec 1943, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-03-23 17:34Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 16 Dec 1943Early alarm got us out of bed and another at dusk with four high flying.
16 - 23 Dec 1943, Tom Hutchinson's Wartime Diary
Submitted by barbaramerchant on Sun, 2013-09-15 14:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 16 Dec 1943 to Thu, 23 Dec 1943
Notes:
16/12/43 Tom shops in Mongkok in the AM, and in Shamshuipo in the PM
22nd "Rice + Starch Ration"
23rd "Sold 15¢ ((catties)) flour @ 5-80 less 10¢ Stamp. Rec'd 24th ¥86.90"Supporting information:
16 Dec 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-11-29 22:00Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 16 Dec 1943Fine. Uneventful.
With Steve pm.
Black-out. Black-out apparently connected with Jap local practice manoeuvers.
16 Dec 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2016-09-20 20:51Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 16 Dec 1943Franklin Gimson sees Florence Eileen Hyde in the evening and finds that she's taking the death of her husband 'very philosophically':
She feels however, that it was lack of foresight on the part of others that was responsible for the Japanese discovering what he was doing. Actually what he was doing I refrained from enquiring just as she refrained from giving information.
Charles Hyde had in fact been engaged in a wide variety of relief and resistance activities before his arrest in April 1943. What cost him his life was indeed the lack of 'foresight' of another British Army Aid Group agent who inadvertenly gave the Japanese information which led to his arrest for his role in a plot to help an Indian prisoner of war escape.
Source:
Franklin Gimson, Diary, Weston Library, Oxford, p. 40 (recto)
16 Dec 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-12-20 13:43
