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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.

  • 18 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-03-04 11:15
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sun, 18 Oct 1942

    Ploughed through difficult chapter 11. 

    Kind Mrs Seath brought Mabel a blancmange to the hospital.

    Mabel allowed to come to the music this evening. Mr Kelly brought me a box to sit on. After, I careered back to hospital with her, I'm afraid she's frightfully excited and overwrought.

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  • 18 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-06-09 15:25
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sun, 18 Oct 1942

    The bankers T. J. J. Fenwick and J. A. D. Morrison begin their escape.

    At 7.30 p.m. they leave the Sun Wah Hotel 'with a Hong Kong basket containing socks, shaving gear, a spare shirt and a quarter of a bottle of whisky and a bottle of Napoleon brandy'. At 7.45 they board a tram for Saukiwan, now accompanied by two Chinese agents of the BAAG. Opposite the Star Ferry a Japanese petty officer gets on.

    Fenwick:

    This bloke seemed to be staring at me all the time, you see, and I thought, oh, God, damned at the very beginning. But nothing happened he got off at some place around the naval yards and we went on.

    At a signal from Agent Lo they alight from the tram, go down a narrow side-street and board a sampan. They lie down full length as they're conveyed past two Japanese destroyers. On the other side they're met by another BAAG agent. They cross the hills to Junk Bay and some marching and two more journeys by boat take them into the hands of communist guerrillas:

    I cannot speak too highly of these guerillas. The care they took and their kindness will always be remembered by me with the deepest gratitude.

    They arrive at BAAG advanced H.Q. at Waichow on October 22, and eventually reach Delhi, where they are thoroughly debriefed - one of the main purposes of the escape has been to pass on important information about financial developments since the surrender. One hundred and two days after they set out, they arrive in Britain.

    Source:

    Frank King, History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Volume 3, 618-621

  • 18 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:49
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 18 Oct 1942

    Dakar falls to U.S. troops & 2 islands in Phillipines Group in their hands. 3 point landing on Continent. Eire breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

    Gusty day.

  • 18 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Wed, 2014-10-29 21:07
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sun, 18 Oct 1942

    HOSPITAL SUNDAY: Montgomery / Ponting


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