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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.

  • 17 Jul 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-06-01 13:24
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Tue, 17 Jul 1945

    Jap order is that all dry reserves of rice to be handed in to Indian Quarters Quartermaster by tomorrow morning, under threat of dire penalties.

    Pasties.

    Feeling better now, but not perfect.

    Bridge, Peg and I played Tacchi and Goldenberg in afternoon, went down 36. ((Beryl Goldenberg was a good friend of mine, though 5 years younger than me. However I think it more likely that the Goldenberg I played bridge was more likely her father William, as I think I Wd have put 'Beryl' rather than Goldenberg  in  diary.    Also, Clifford John Tacchi (shown on Greg Leck's list as an engineer in Public Works Dept, Waterworks) was 65, the same age as Beryl's father, so a more likely partner  for him.))

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  • 17 Jul 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 16:24
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 17 Jul 1945

    All raw rice to be handed in to Bl. Reps. and then to communal kitchens 

  • 17 Jul 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 17:04
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Tue, 17 Jul 1945

    Heavy squalls early am. E wind. Squally all day.

    Odd jobs & Rec. room forms re-seating with iron box strapping.

    Japs order all private raw rice to be handed in.

    Lorry with veg. 6pm.

    German lesson. 

    (Russia & China sign Pact of Friendship, India  & Self-government, & our forces in & around Pakhoi) ∴


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